Our E-Reflections, meditations on the twisting journey of faith, express the desire to foster reflective practice in a daily life often mobbed with urgent and demanding voices. They comprise Regular, Advent, Lenten reflections plus our magazine.

REFLECTION SERIES

Marking and celebrating transitions

Marking and celebrating transitions

Receptivity and patience series

Receptivity and patience series

Inward and outward journeys: Lent 2020 reflections

Inward and outward journeys: Lent 2020 reflections

Coracle Magazine
Vol 10: The pictures within
Vol 10: The pictures within

Shame and vulnerability; Website: downloadable topic sheets launched; Invisible church - book review; New groups - East Lothian Group: An oasis with bite and Explorers

Vol 9: Life is precious
Vol 9: Life is precious

Life is precious.  Follow me - Lynn Darke.  Retreat in Daily Life. New website launch. 

Vol 8: Room to roam
Vol 8: Room to roam

The flight of faith; The sacrifices of God; Reaching out to the unfamiliar; Relinquishment and Albuquerque; Striding arches; Looking again at Respect

Vol 7: Faith in journey
Vol 7: Faith in journey

Faith in 'journey'; Treasures of darkness; Being read;  The cost of prosperity ;Ben Lawers Nature reserve trip: Look well to each step.

Advent series (most recent and completed)
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He will come like child
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Come close?
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God comes disguised as our life
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He comes like last leaf's fall
Lent series (most recent and completed)
So (Easter Sunday)
So (Easter Sunday)

So- a resurrection word

After (Holy Saturday)
After (Holy Saturday)

After - a following word

Now (Good Friday)
Now (Good Friday)

Now - a particular word

Why?
Why?

Why - a heartfelt word

But (ours)
But (ours)

But - a hiding word

Yet
Yet

Yet - a red flag word

Unless
Unless

Unless - an absolute word

Just
Just

Just - a pivot word

If
If

A questioning word

But
But

An arresting word.

Advent (Selected archived)
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The son of man in our midst

Looking at the Christmas story through pictures from the Methodist Modern Art Collection, reflecting on the incarnation and our bodily encounter with the divine.

The son of man is born: Saying our hellos
The son of man is born: Saying our hellos

Philip Hagreen Natus Est (He is born) from the Methodist Modern Art Collection © TMCP, used with permission.

www.methodist.org.uk/artcollection

The son of man and brokenness
The son of man and brokenness

Jyoti Sahi (b. 1944) Dalit Madonna from the Methodist Modern Art Collection © TMCP, used with permission.

www.methodist.org.uk/artcollection

The son of man is come: One of us
The son of man is come: One of us

Ralph Beyer (1921-2008) - The son of man is come from the Methodist Modern Art Collection © TMCP, used with permission. www.methodist.org.uk/artcollection

Lent (selected archived)
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The peace walk

Suggestions for processional walking prayers for and from Palm Sunday

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The pilgrim walk

Stations of the Cross simulations using online art and outdoor walks with trees as markers and links to a selection of reflections

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The spiral walk

Quotes and comments collected with links to poems (some with audio)

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The return walk

Reflections in concert with, amongst others, the Methodist Modern Art Collection

Other reflections
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Essential renewal and the daily check-in

Fundamental renewing questions and daily check-in

You are lovely
You are lovely

I can...

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All things are passing away

Let nothing disturb you,

Let nothing frighten you,

All things are passing away:

God never changes.

 

 

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I’m not finished with my changes

"Take off the grave clothes and let him go." (John 11)

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True self through union

With God's help I shall become myself.  Soren Kierkegaard

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I will never leave or forsake you

One cry, and I stumble from bed. Morning Song, Sylvia Plath

Intimacy and Autonomy
Intimacy and Autonomy

There is a time for birth and death, …. embracing and parting. Ecclesiastes 3

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God is here to bless you

Welcome, Child of love, God is here to bless you. 

Celtic Daily Prayer, Dedication of a child

The Phases of Life
The Phases of Life

I have walked through many lives.  The Layers, Stanley Kunitz*

What do you want me to do for you?
What do you want me to do for you?

I still haven't found what I'm looking for.  U2

Who do you say I am?
Who do you say I am?

You are the Messiah.  Matthew 16:15

Journey of the magi, James Tissot
Why are you looking for me?

He is the Life.  W.H.Auden

Wood snake, James Forbes
The questions of Jesus

Be patient with regard to all that in your heart is still unresolved  Rainer Maria Rilke

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Times, moods and one good place

It is essential to experience all the times and moods of one good place. Thomas Merton

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His eye is on the sparrow

Feeling at my wit's end, I took a walk.  Kathleen Norris

A quote to live and die by
A quote to live and die by

It is by choice and not by chances that we change our circumstances. Nadia Sahari

A simple prayer
A simple prayer

Let me not follow the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path. Max Ehrmann

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What constitutes human flourishing?

It is the sound of singing that I hear. Exodus 32:18

Flowers, Shannon Richards
If God is love

All we can touch, swallow, or say
aids in our crossing to God
and helps unveil the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Respect
Respect

Joseph took the boys from Israel’s knees and bowed respectfully, his face to the ground. Genesis 48:12

Slideshow credits: The weald of Kent, Samuel Palmer.  Journey of the magi, James Tissot.  Derision of Christ, Colmar. The fog warning, Winslow Homer