The Last Word
>Sometimes we feel that people have to have the “last word” in an argument. It is so annoying! Sometimes I have to do presentations – and I apologise for all those occasions when I’ve appeared to...
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At its best the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain and then – and only then –...
View ArticleHarrowing
There are some words you just want to roll around in your mind isn’t there? “Harrowing” did its work on me when I saw this poem by Parker Palmer, which he describes as “taking form” within him....
View ArticleWhat if every word we say never ends or fades away?
What are the words that wake us? What words wake us, make us and break us? These are the questions rattling round my mind today. Malcolm Guite has a sobering reflection on words in which he reflects...
View ArticleThe words that wake us – a sermon on Isaiah 50:4
A sermon preached at Mattins at Chester Cathedral on October 13th 2013. The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher (or, of one who is taught), that I may know how to sustain the weary with a...
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Steadfast – word of the day (and night) Staunch and steady the love that lasts long into dark night, longs till the last are first, constant cloud lining past all mists of time. #Hosea6...
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