Posts by Jeanette Acland
Saving Paradise: Reimagining Lent and Easter- Ann Drummond
Sophia’s Spring – Reflection: Reimagining Lent and Easter. Ann Drummond I love tradition, whether it is following traditions created in my lifetime with family and/or friends or whether it is…
Read MoreWe support Elizabeth Morgan House Aboriginal Women’s Service
Each year on January 26, we see Aboriginal people and our allies walk together to call for changes. For many today is a day of sadness but it is also…
Read MoreCynthia Bourgeault’s Wisdom Jesus – Kathy H
Question #1: How do I move beyond the “mazes of the mind” and into a deeper wisdom knowing? Answer: The answer is simple, though perhaps not easy: through meditation. Meditation is…
Read MoreWisdom Practices for Transformation – Join us in January
January 3 Wisdom Practices 1 Kathy will introduce us to Centring prayer as a transformational practice 10 January Wisdom Practices 2 Kathy with Steve and Di will lead us in…
Read MoreDivinity is young – reflection for Dec13.20 Advent 3
Divinity is young reflection for Dec13 Advent 3 ‘In the beginning the baby was born…God/de chose Mary to be the mother of God/de… listen carefully… and the word became a…
Read MoreReflecting on Wisdom by Jan D
Although I have for a long time been seduced by the brilliance of Dickinson’s poetry, I was introduced to this particular poem when listening to a lecture on trans- feminism…
Read Morepaying attention
Paying attention to….. In Jeanette’s Reflection on Prayer, she mentioned the concept of ‘paying attention to’ (mindfulness). In Michael Williams recent review of Richard Flanagan’s new book ‘The Living Sea…
Read MoreCentering Prayer
Centering Prayer Centering Prayer is an invitation to rest in God, to relax and let the Holy Spirit pray through us “in sighs too deep for words.” It is inspired…
Read MoreProbiotics & eco-kinship & puppy yoga
I have a suitcace of empty Yakult bottles I have saved because I think probiotics illustrates the symbiotic relationship between humanity, bacteria and all life. So one day, when free…
Read MoreSeasons of Creation – A celebration of Rivers
Beginners by Denise Levertov But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope? –so…
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