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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
REFLECTIONS OF A PERSON OF FAITH
Your One Wild and Precious Life
reflections of a person of faith
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
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In a Far Land Upon a Day
In a far land upon a day, Where never snow did fall, Three kings went riding on the way Bearing presents all. And one wore red, and one...
Gwynith Young
Jan 10, 2024
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Away in a Manger
Jesus was a Palestinian Jew He was a Jewish Palestinian too He realised he was a child of God Same for you, he said, how sweetly odd....
Gwynith Young
Jan 4, 2024
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Carrying a candle
Carrying a candle from one little place of shelter to another is an act of love. To move through the huge and hungry darkness, step by...
Gwynith Young
Jan 4, 2024
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Power
In the words of psychologist David Richo, “Hidden in everything negative is something alive and beautiful that wants to belong to us.”...
Gwynith Young
Nov 20, 2023
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Advent
We light the candles of vision in this season of waiting, that we might see you in the refugees who have travelled so far to reach a new...
Gwynith Young
Nov 20, 2023
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Future Hope
Moses asks God what name he should use when people ask him who He is. God replies enigmatically, in a phrase that occurs nowhere else in...
Gwynith Young
Nov 4, 2023
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Blessed are the hated . . .
"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice on...
Gwynith Young
Sep 13, 2023
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Stillness
Be still, for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One is here; come bow before him now with reverence and fear; in him no sin is found, we...
Gwynith Young
Aug 16, 2023
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Sin
"Ortega y Gasset wrote once, 'We are locked outside ourselves,' and so we are. Peter Steele sj
Gwynith Young
Jul 12, 2023
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Definitions of God
"The love which gave us our origin and gives us our destination . . ." Peter Steele sj "The love which moves the sun and other stars . ....
Gwynith Young
Jul 12, 2023
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God as Nomad
God , for Peter Steele sj, is an expatriate and a traveller, "a nomad whose home is the earth." The way of God into the far country of...
Gwynith Young
Jul 8, 2023
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Recommended
Peter Steele recommends that people be "troubled into creativity" and that, eschewing "glib Christian talk" and behaviour, they go...
Gwynith Young
Jul 8, 2023
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The Fool
God for Steele is . . . a fool, a divine idiot who can't learn anything except loving. The loving foolishness of God is stressing after...
Gwynith Young
Jul 8, 2023
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The Jester
The jester, "always making trouble, always kicking up the turf into which the grain might fall." "The Jester for Steele exposes one kind...
Gwynith Young
Jul 8, 2023
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Of Paul
"He is the patron saint of provocation, the troubler of the trivial . . . What he really wants to do . . . is to see us provoked by...
Gwynith Young
Jul 8, 2023
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Commonplace?
"God invests the commonplace with uncommon significance, and irradiates the unremarkable flesh with the singular word." Peter Steele,...
Gwynith Young
Jul 8, 2023
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Jewishness
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the Rt. Hon. Gentleman were living as savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the...
Gwynith Young
Jun 26, 2023
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Jun 23, 2023
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Jun 23, 2023
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Jun 23, 2023
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Jun 23, 2023
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