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St Michael's Church Rector's Blog
Live Large and Dream Small
Dreams are fantastic. They capture our imagination and launch us on ventures. Sometimes the end wonderfully conforms to the dream. At other times the steps and plans towards a particular dream mysteriously lead us in new but nonetheless desirable directions.
Yes, dreams are good and should, pretty much always, be encouraged but a lively little poem [...]
Helicopter Parent – Where are you going?
Getting a bigger view is often risky. In 1995, together with our two small children (then aged 3 and 1), we left Australia to live in the great lakes region of Africa. Challenged by the appreciation that those with a present abundance might share with those who currently want (2 Corinthians 8:8-15), we went [...]
Palm Sunday Song – Fun and Tradition
Posted by michael in St Michael's on March 29th, 2010
My tradition likes tradition. We even have a special article of religion to encourage the maintaining of tradition. However there need be nothing static, stodgy or imposed about this tradition! Indeed the article anticipates that traditions will be changed ‘according to the diversities of countries, times and people’s manners ….’ (Article 34 of the Anglican [...]
Poets in the Pulpit
Posted by michael in Poetry, St Michael's on March 23rd, 2010
A friend of mine has died. She had lived a long life but even where there is much to celebrate death remains a time of sadness.
Our last meeting was at Doreen’s hospital bed. We did not have a conversation. I chatted. I read a few passages from the bible. I prayed. Doreen could not speak [...]
The Gap Year
My National Clergy Listing in the Australian Anglican Directory is a scant entry but even so my Gap Year gets an official mention – ‘Lve of Abs 1991’. Not much as a mention but my ‘Lve of Abs’ was very eventful. I learnt a language, worked as a zimmerman, did a brief locum for the [...]
The Milosz Perspective
‘Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things…..’
These words come from a poem by Czeslaw Milosz entitled ‘Love’. (The full text can be found here). This poem beautifully invites me to put things in their correct perspective – to see myself as only ‘one thing among the many’.
As I [...]