Holy Week poetry
Holy Week: Tuesday Pray the Story has been a project, a practice, of composing prayer-poems (poetic prayers or prayerful poems) in response to biblical compositions. At various times I have read these [...]
Liturgy for the General Secretary
The National Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia appoints a General Secretary to help facilitate the administration, mission, and governance of the church's national work. My friend, Andrew Johnson, has [...]
Art for The Voice
The Effective Living Centre is co-hosting Indigenous arts events this week in support of the proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament. Tuesday evening, a film screening and conversation with the director; this weekend [...]
spiritual but not
fragile we call to each other fragile we meet fragile breaking, falling apart fragile we stand together fragile strangers fragile humans more human together, fragile opening to Sacred mystery, fragile breaking falling open fragile [...]
while the jacarandas burst
jacarandas shout rebirth! life turns out of winter sleep; yet, spring’s unseasonal storms wash purple tears in torrents a brother, all of a sudden; a mother, cancer let go at last the trees and [...]
Pray with me, or go deeper?
Pray the Story Podcast is live! Pray with me. Respond to the words of the Bible with poetry, with prayer, with imagination. Each month, audio and text for four new [...]
of ripples, glistening
sunlight shows the surface ripples, glistens gold on dew-dropped leaves; warms my legs and blinds me as I squint past upper story windows to the vast pristine blue from hidden perches, kookaburras’ laughter draws [...]
returning
golden floodlight lifts greens to bolder brightness against deep grey – lifts me on a rolling wave of petrichor I can almost hear on my heart’s memory of the ocean – a sudden taste [...]
cherished
my body leans into it, the warmth: starved of it, these winter days of grey my body reaches up to it, the expanse: breathes again out from under heavy skies my body stretches into [...]
Whisper on My Palm Book Launch
On Thursday 31 March, my latest poetry collection, Whisper on My Palm, was launched at Rise Sanctuary, Canberra. Rev Drs Ockert Meyer (United Theological College, Sydney) and Sarah Bachelard (Benedictus Contemplative Church) spoke eloquently of poetry [...]
Listen to the Whispers
Poems from Whisper On My Palm Whisper On My Palm is a new collection of poems I will have published with Resource Publications in 2022. These are poems through the experiences of grief, illness, [...]
hope arising
hearing Michelle, Mikhaila, Alison, Jade, and Tania speak at the Rise Christmas Party 2021 from this still space, this gentle pace of gather, together, communion, we ponder – hope – [...]
