You are lovely

September 17, 2015 Andrew Hook

I can...

I’m not finished with my changes

August 13, 2015 Andrew Hook

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

True self through union

July 30, 2015 Andrew Hook

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

I will never leave or forsake you

July 2, 2015 Andrew Hook

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

Intimacy and Autonomy

June 25, 2015 Andrew Hook

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

God is here to bless you

June 18, 2015 Andrew Hook

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

Celtic Daily Prayer, Dedication of a child

The Phases of Life

June 11, 2015 Andrew Hook

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

What do you want me to do for you?

February 12, 2015 Andrew Hook

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

Who do you say I am?

January 29, 2015 Andrew Hook

You are the Messiah. Matthew 16:15

Why are you looking for me?

January 22, 2015 Andrew Hook

He is the Life. W.H.Auden

The questions of Jesus

January 8, 2015 Andrew Hook

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

A time for listening and speaking

May 23, 2013 Andrew Hook

Watchin' and listenin' 's the thing at present ."
Magician 's Nephew, C S Lewis

A time to keep and to give

May 16, 2013 Andrew Hook

Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good. Hebrews 13:16

A time to cry and to laugh

May 2, 2013 Andrew Hook

Weeping may stay for the night but rejoicing comes in the morning.
Psalm 30:5

A time to tear down and build up

April 24, 2013 Andrew Hook

Every week, a Sabbath rest when I release the world’s hold on me.
Christine Valters Paintner

A time to kill and heal

April 18, 2013 Andrew Hook

Is this the river of life
or death? Both? Both.

Wendell Berry, Sabbaths 2002, VI

Journeying within Christ

February 16, 2012 Andrew Hook

In Him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28

On the cusp

February 9, 2012 Andrew Hook

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Photo: Beach at Charmouth cusps, Derek Harper

Imagining the world beneath your feet

I was there precisely on the cusp of the seasons. The year was turning beneath my feet, beneath the boat I sat in. The wet season was ending, the dry season beginning. For the herbivores, the time of plenty was ending; for the carnivores, the time of plenty was about to begin. (Simon Barnes in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia, How to be wild)

Jesus has been described as a metaphorical theologian*. He introduced metaphors as if they were houses whose windows we are invited to sit at and look out from, view the world, our lives and/or God from. The metaphors of 'on the cusp of seasons' and of a 'year turning beneath my feet' is such rich language and causes me to recall when I thought my world turning beneath me; feet pulled out from under me or swept up and away, also of times of feeling on the brink, at the turn of a tide.

* Kenneth Bailey, Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes

Doors opening

February 2, 2012 Andrew Hook

Joy teaches him to rise, to stand and move out through the opening the light has madeSabbaths 2001, I. Wendell Berry

Compass and rudder

January 19, 2012 Andrew Hook

O Christ, will You help me on the wild waves? St. Brendan's Prayer