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. Thanks to Gus MacLeod for his music track suggestions. E-Reflections introduction and Current theme introduction: Phases of Life
A word from the light, a flash from the dark
The light flows toward the earth,
the river toward the sea,
and these do not change.
The air changes, as the mind
changes at a word from the light,
a flash from the dark
Sabbaths 2000 VI (extract) in Given by Wendell Berry
Choosing a Way
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Beginnings of Identity
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Identity and Expectations
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognised as your own.
Marking the Way
A need for inns on roads, islands in seas,
Halts for discoveries to be shared,
Maps checked, notes compared;
A need, at times, of each for each,
Direct as the need of throat and tongue for speech.
Not Love Perhaps, ASJ Tessimond
