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Living in the question...: June 2012
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Sunday, 17 June 2012. This is an address on Walt Whitman and why I love his poetry. Last week the poet Michael Rosen wrote this comment:. What seems to be coming up is a requirement that all primary children from the age of 5 should learn poetry by heart. Did any of you? And I wond...
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Living in the question...: February 2012
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Sunday, 5 February 2012. The worth of Martha - excerpts from service for 5 . 2 . 12. From ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Martha and Mary (Luke 10: 38-42). I am sure that most of you are f...
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Living in the question...: February 2013
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Sunday, 17 February 2013. Grateful to Women of the Past. When asked to do the 'Ladies' service at another Unitarian Church I reflected on how I thank some of the women of the past for my being where I am today. Hymn - Nearer My God To Thee. We just have to look at the writing of Fr...
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Living in the question...: "Understand Life Backwards"
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Monday, 29 July 2013. Reading: Run the Film Backwards. A poem by Sydney Carter. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Address for Sunday 28th July 2013:. On the side of my filing cabinet I have pinned there the ancient Sanskrit poem:. For it is life, the very life of life. Is but a dream.
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Living in the question...: September 2012
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Sunday, 30 September 2012. Reading - Luke 18: 1- 8. Will he be slow to help them? 8 I tell you, he will give them justice quickly. COTTON ONTO JUSTICE…. Well here we are again at that time of year when we have our harvest festival. But today we can get all sorts of foods, all the y...
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Living in the question...: October 2012
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Monday, 29 October 2012. Do we value the Bible? A few weeks ago Edna, a member of my congregation, gave me a leaflet which talked about Bible Sunday thinking it might be of interest. Well as today is Bible Sunday I thought it might be an idea to look at the Bible. Which was one of ...
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Living in the question...: January 2013
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Sunday, 13 January 2013. The Journey - by Mary Oliver. Story - The Stonecutter. Last week I spoke about Epiphany and in doing so I gave some definitions of what Epiphany means and the third of these meanings was:. Or in other words as I said then, ‘a light bulb moment’. It captures...
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Living in the question...: August 2013
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Sunday, 11 August 2013. What are the things that endure? Address for 11th August 2013. I came across a snippet of poetry the other day that really spoke to me:. Change is a necessary phenomenon. In an active system. Often we associate this story with the idea of the grass being gre...
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Living in the question...: May 2012
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Living in the question. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.' RAINER MARIA RILKE. Letters to a Young Poet. Sunday, 6 May 2012. United we stand, divided we . . ? From Roman’s 12: we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Story – Problems on the Ark -. 1 Corinthians 12: 12 – 26 Common English Bible. The first by John Donne, would have given me “No on...