April 2013
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Monopoly Education
Recently I’ve rediscovered my love of handwriting which has been very freeing indeed.
I’ve a few ideas brewing that might make an appearance at some point over the next while.
We played Monopoly a while back and I won. It felt and looked ugly.
May 2012
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Breeze
He watched standing silent in the corner as the window he had opened changed the room, as a cool breeze blew across their foreheads, the old man whistled loud a tune.
A nurse began to dance around the deathbeds, a crippled man cried glory praise the Lord as the cool breeze flooded through the window and once where there was sadness there was joy.
The children bounced like crickets on a...
April 2012
11 posts
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“Only wonder understands”
– Gregory of Nyssa
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“God save me from god”
– Meister Eckhart
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Good Friday
In this darkening twilight
In the grip of caustic expectations
In this void of promise
Dwell here
In the dread of uncertainty
In this frozen nothing
In these sodden garments
Dwell here
In this blackening stillness
In the muted obscurity
In the absence of heartbeat
Dwell here
In the coercion of sadness
In the aggression of weeping
In the constancy of anguish
Dwell here
In the...
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“Jesus is dead. Just for today, dwell on that.”
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cinemagr.am →
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Surely He Was The Son Of God...
Surely he was the Son the God
Spat out, no longer kissed.
Surely he was the Son of God
Sliced open, gorged on, ripped
Surely he was the Son of God
Vintage, sloshed and guzzled
Surely he was the Son of God
Defiled, blemished, muzzled
Surely he was the Son of God
Sin of God that never was
Surely he was the son of God
Flawless Son who always was
Such womb like love
Birth through his...
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Rest and Rupture...
Can we balance the scales and see rest and rupture on a level playing field? Community always comes at great cost whether it be with eachother or with God. There is much rest to be found in the place of Christian community but before we make it that far there is an embrace with Christ that might cost us everything, a place in which we encounter a love that will not in the first instance repair...
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Rest and Rupture
So often in church we hear that there we will find purpose, peace and a place to belong. There often comes with the embrace of newly found or rediscovered faith the promise of solace from hardships, a deeply seeded joy in our hearts and a settling down of the sea of despair that life can sometimes be. In being reconciled to each other and to God the promise is often one of rest. In accepting...
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cinemagr.am →
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cinemagr.am →
(Taken with http://cinemagr.am)
March 2012
21 posts
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Worth A Visit - Fukushima →
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Pictures And Peace
Show me pictures
Beautiful pictures
Beautiful pictures and peace
Here where I am
Here where I am Lord
Here where we are Lord together
O how I see it
Now I can see you
O I can see you redeeming
Now in this moment
A mundane found moment
A magical moment reclaimed
In this I’m retreating
Retreating,reposing
Retreating, reposing on you
Show me pictures
Beautiful pictures...
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Beatitudes Rewritten
God’s are the barren
For theirs is virgin land
Crowned are the broken
For they will be mended
Blessed are the malleable
For they will fashion a new kingdom
God’s are those who delay
For in fasting they will feast
Crowned are the light bearers
They will see truth
Undamned are the soulclean
For they have room for God
Blessed are they who sabbath
For they will reside in...
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Different
1 Corinthians 12 : 12 -26
Christ is the garment that adorns this body. One form, baptised in Christ. Straying eyes and nosey ears, flat feet that cannot dance. Fumbling, faltering hands and weak, crumbling knees join with weary worn out shoulders saddled with the glory of God to declare the love of the Father, displayed in the Son through the power of the spirit all as one. This is who...
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Tribes
Galatians 3:26-29
No outward sign, no tribal mark will make us right with God. Colours stained on walls or heady proclamations do nothing to bring us close to him. The Father looks to the heart, a place where the spirit might take up residence. Threads of green and orange or red or white, black or blue count for little. In baptism, we put on Christ, one new garment of many colours. For in...
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Three In One
Matthew 3:13-17
The Son is immersed, the Spirit descends and the Father speaks “this is my son, whom I love, with him I am well pleased”. This is Holy Trinity at it’s work of salvation…Father endorses the Son as mediator, Son enters his mission, Spirit in Christ is spoken to all people. Three In One, displaying the fulness of love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,...
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One Horse Town
The Village is a wondrous place, full of life and stories.
The daily grind, the highs and lows, the joys and then the worries.
A fractured town of real life folk who built these walls with pride.
Many facets has this place, built firm on a mudslide.
Pull the blinds and lock the door, the storm outside is brewing.
The kids are safe, tucked up in bed, their progress you’re reviewing.
...
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Go In Peace
Go now in piece
To love and serve
Go now in piece
To live and learn
Go in peace.
Now in one piece
As 100 pennies make a pound
Like a 1000’s redwoods on a hill
As a cacophony of voices in chorus
As a million stitches makes a garment
Go in one glorious piece
Like 10 trillion droplets makes a shower
As 10 wild geese fly as V
As countless links in a rusted chain
As a gazillion...
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WatchNo Jew or Gentile, slave nor free for we are one in Christ.
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Come In Pieces
Come in pieces
Scattered as you are
Like a newly unboxed jigsaw
Come in pieces
Detached from glory
In ruins, where walls have fallen
Come in pieces
Another survivor of fortune’s fancy
Stunned and laid out bare
Come in pieces
Torn, ragged in tatters
Old wet bunting long after the party’s over
Come in pieces
Held neither by rhythm nor rhyme
Out of step and out, of, kilter
...
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“God might not be a white, loyalist Protestant”
– Billy
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Go In Pieces - Padraig O Tuama
This poem below help me piece together what we did at Fitzroy tonight…
In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
In the name of goodness and love and broken community.
In the name of meaning and feeling and I hope you don’t screw me…
In the name of sadness, regret, and holy obsession, the holy name of anger, the spirit of aggression…
In the name of beauty and...
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“One is only poor if one chooses”
– Dolly Parton
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February 2012
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“Always judge a book by its cover”
– Scott Jamison
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Silence
Father God…
You mock us as we sit in silence. As if our silence can change one thing. You mock us because it’s not our silence.
It’s yours.
Your stoney silence that fills these walls. You will not speak because you do not speak.
God don’t speak for I could not handle it. These prayers are only fit to preserve and maintain me.
You would only rupture me…
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January 2012
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Cleopas
So we’re on the road to Emmaus, we’d started out early to make the 7 mile journey before the heat got too high. What a week that had been. Gethsemane, Pilate, Herod, Peter’s breakdown and the then the execution. The whole thing had become just one big blur and I was exhausted, the last thing I felt like doing was travelling but all the same we set off.
Deflated, that’s how we felt, that...
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Peter
One minute you’re declaring your allegiance to a friend, more than a friend, Christ, the Messiah. I remember that day like it was yesterday. That’s what he was, I mean of course, after all we’d been through there was little left for the imagination to conjure. Knowing Jesus that intimately robbed me of imagination. Impossible became nothing…
I was never the compulsive type until I...
December 2011
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Cardinal Sin →
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Whore
I watched you through the tinted glass.
Your forced expression clear.
Your eyes, they tell a story I may not want to hear.
Red light your youth exposes.
No more older than a girl.
Those that use and lie with you deceived by plastic stare.
You stand all day, a temptress, a silent voice of lies.
What you sell does not exist but for it men’s souls cry.
You think that skimpy,...
November 2011
12 posts
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Words - Filled
The psalmist declares that the heaven’s declare the creator’s glory, so steeped are they in his image, diffuse with his presence and so it is with our word, your words. Impregnated, filled and saturated with an often overlooked sacredness. Untold beauty or insufferable madness lie there within and it with all this in mind that we acknowledge that words truly matter.
Some words should never...
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Words - Connect
Words connect for good or for ill because they are imbued with spirit. They do not exist in isolation from the once perfect yet fallen, mind-blowing world which they describe or in which they were created.
The word became flesh.
Jesus bacame flesh.
Where did it grow up?
Where did that word come from?
Where had that word put down it’s roots?
What culture was it a product of?
...
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Words - Power
And yet the power of words to shatter is so evident. Whether written, spoken, dobbed on a wall, nailed to a lampost or enacted nefariously, everyday words be they mere syllables or whole sentences possess an untamable power than no one can contain. If anything were ever not to be doubted then it’s the power and potency of words to give birth to infinite madness. From indoctrination to abuse,...
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Words - Translation
Translation brings much to bear upon the words that we use. There are times when we all need the correct translation, find yourself in a Spanish cafe wanting a plate of egg and chips and you’ll know what I mean. How do we take hold of a word that means so much in English and bring the same powerful meaning that it possesses upon hearers and readers from around the globe? Translate an everyday...
