Coracle Trust E-Reflections
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.
E-Reflections introduction and Current theme introduction: Faith transitions.
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Faith transitions: Doors opening »
Joy teaches him
to rise, to stand and move out through
the opening the light has made
Sabbaths 2001, I. Wendell Berry
Faith transitions: Compass and rudder »
Shall I then suffer every kind of wound that the sea can inflict?
Shall I take my tiny boat across the wide sparkling ocean?
O King of the Glorious Heaven, shall I go of my own choice upon the sea?
O Christ, will You help me on the wild waves?
St. Brendan’s Prayer
Faith transitions: Secure and strange »
People need a life of practical romance;
the combination of something that is strange
with something that is secure.
Orthodoxy: the romance of faith, G.K. Chesterton
Advent 2011: That we may be one »
Make ready for the Face that speaks like lightning,
Uttering the new name of your exultation
Deep in the vitals of your soul.
Make ready for the Christ, Whose smile, like lightning,
Sets free the song of everlasting glory
That now sleeps, in your paper flesh, like dynamite.
Thomas Merton
Faith transitions: Reading to Being Read »
What is this wondrous mystery
unfolding within me?
I have no words to name it,
for that One is above all praise,
transcends all words
St.Symeon the New Theologian
Faith transitions: Turning around yet one more time »
The soul should always stand ajar
That if the Heaven enquire
He will not be obliged to wait
Or shy of troubling Her
Emily Dickinson
