Ray's Blog: December 2010
Earthing & Flaming - New Year Message
Words from our USA Guardian Paul Martin (in the Lammas edition of USA Wild Goose magazine) spoke to me: 'I resonate with the Celtic Way at a deep level. It leads me into a much more holistic faith than I have known before. But I stumble to put it into...
A Christmas Message: All Gift, And No Threat
A radio broadcast described someone's life as 'all gift, no threat'. Could we want anything better said of us? The person in human history who most deserves that epitaph is, surely, Jesus. All kinds of people - not just Christians - celebrate his birthday because he had the quality...
Heavenly Christmas Cards
Thanks to all you lovely people who send Christmas cards with such interesting quotes or information. Like the supermarket Hallelujah Chorus on U-ube: ATT00727htm (1KB).
Skeena scribbled these words of Apollinaire:
'Come to the edge'
'It's too high'
'Come to the edge'.
'We might...
A Christmas Prayer For Bethlehem
Noeline has sent a Christmas card from New Zealand with this Christmas prayer from Garth Hewitt taken from 'Making Dreams Come True' (SPCK):
What have they done to the 'Little Town'?
Imprisoned it in a concrete wall.
Bethlehem - once a holy city
Trapped inside a ghetto wall.
Here...
Break Down The Walls
Seven foot pilgrim Elijah Thomas Uhlig walked into ice-bound Holy Island. He has walked 4,000 miles from the Berlin Wall and the Jewish death camps. He will walk another 16,000 miles through wounded and sacred sites to the wall in Jerusalem. As he walks he learns the wisdom of...Good Neighbours And Cups Of Tea
Icebergs on the causeway have to be cleared before folk in ordinary cars like mine dare cross to the mainland. Poor Ruth, however, has to get to or back from her mainland doctors' surgery before these have been cleared. Some islanders have large landrovers. One of...
Space Age Ice Pilgrims
Parts of Britain are 15 degrees colder than Iceland. Four pilgrims managed to reach the warmth of The Open Gate for our retreat on 'Make Space for Something to Happen'. Something happened for each of us. Elsa had a night in an airport, was diverted to London before arriving at...
