grief

A Ministry with Words

2025-06-11T14:19:36+09:3017 June 2025|Ministry of Presence|

Asking for help For twenty years, I have invested significantly of time, energy, money, into my craft, my evolving ministry through words. Story crafting, telling, interpreting, listening. Poetry, liturgy, prayer, song. I spend [...]

while the jacarandas burst

2022-12-08T10:50:09+10:308 December 2022|Poetry|

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 [...]

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Listen to the Whispers

2022-10-13T13:52:58+10:3025 January 2022|Poetry|

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, [...]

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Touch

2022-10-13T13:54:27+10:3024 August 2021|Poetry|

I cannot hold your hand today, friend or stranger, when we meet. I take instead the rose’s leaf, ‘hold me’, it said, ‘offer me your greeting.’ I cannot share embrace with [...]

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Last Christmas

2022-10-13T13:59:13+10:308 December 2020|Poetry|

For Christmas 2019 and 2020 (and the rest)  Last Christmas gave us a fright, lines of dazzling light, searing wounds visible from highest skies. This Christmas, we can not light even [...]

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Ten albums of impact

2022-10-13T14:02:28+10:302 September 2020|On Reflection|

From time to time, friends tag each other on Facebook in ten day sharing sprees on a theme: black and white photo from your day; albums that had a significant impact; books you love. [...]

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You have to feel the feelings, Sarah

2022-10-13T14:02:12+10:3020 August 2020|Ministry of Presence|

When knowing is not enough I know that emotions are important; that emotions are interpretive, responsive, guiding. I know that feeling emotions is important for our well-being. The method for interpreting the Bible [...]

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all my tears

2022-10-13T14:05:07+10:303 April 2020|Poetry|

for Dad I cry with Fatigue, and I am crying for you I cry, inflamed muscles aching, I am crying for you I cry anger at isolation, but find: I cry for you I [...]

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