Stories for life
Madeline Martin's bookish heroines This Christmas, while looking for gifts for others, I found a novel that grabbed my attention, then went looking for more from the author. In these particular works, Madeline [...]
Then I remembered
Holy Week Stories with Christ Church Uniting and The Effective Living Centre Three stories, for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week. Listen to or read one a day as a meditation if [...]
Sacred Presence in Fractured Lives
Reflection for Pilgrim Uniting Church, 25 June 2023 Sarah's turn as God promised, though I had laughed to think of motherhood, shocked to think of motherhood, afraid of motherhood [...]
Of miracles and laughter
Reflection for Pilgrim Uniting Church, 18 June 2023 Sarah laughed Read aloud or listen to Genesis 18:1–15. How did Sarah laugh? What do you hear and imagine of Sarah's [...]
Peace be with you
Reflection for Unley Uniting Church, 16 April 2023 : Easter 2 John 20:19–31 Peace for his disciples 1 The beloved It was strange: before he said peace, before we knew he [...]
Meditations for Lent 3
Reflection for Clayton-Wesley Uniting Church, 12 March 2023 : Lent 3 Meditation 1: Beside Jacob's Well John 4:5–22 By the well of Jacob, Jesus met a woman; by the well of [...]
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 [...]
The seasons turn
Opening to the gifts Seasons change. As they do, they bring us new gifts, offer us new challenges. How do we move through the seasons open to the gifts, ready [...]
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 – [...]
