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  Swing Trilogy

  Tess Ashton 27 July 2015

  this feast of joy
  is working
  hills and clouds and trees
  like me
  are celebrating more»
  Poetry
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  Winter solstice song

  Tess Ashton 10 July 2015

  ...'But it is
  the year's shortest day
  when anything can happen,
  miracles 'not a problem'.
  more»
  Poetry, Winter, Solstice
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  Intercession and Blessing

  The Rev. Iain Gow 6 July 2015

  IntercessionI intercede for you who needs an encounter,with Christ.I intercede for myself; may I know todayJesus as lover of my soul.I intercede for my world; may it bedrawn to unityI intercede for more»
  Prayers

• Faith and Doubt

  The Rev. Iain Gow 3 July 2015

  Lord, when my season is joy, let me celebrate
  and be thankful;
  When my season is pain, let me discover
  you healing me... more»
  Faith, Prayer
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  Waves

  The Rev. Dr. Paul McKeown 1 July 2015

  Sundays at granny's -
  full of healing
  hospitality... more»
  Poetry, Sunday, Memory
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  Northern Lights in April

  The Rev. Dr. Hilary Oxford Smith 26 June 2015

  Travelling is in the DNA of most New Zealanders. Over a million of them live overseas and thousands holiday around the world each year. Families love nothing better than packing up the tent, caravan or camper van and hitting the road to enjoy some R and R. If you've got an iconic V Dub, all the better. more»
  Reflection, Meditation, Poets, April
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  Northern Lights in June

  The Rev. Dr. Hilary Oxford Smith 26 June 2015

  A visitor from New Zealand comes to call and eggs are cooked on a makeshift stove... more»
  Reflection, Meditation, Solstice, Love, Travel
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  The Pentecostal lady apostle from Brisbane

  Tess Ashton 7 June 2015

  '...soon it was all
  moving mountains
  from here
  to there more»
  Poetry, Pentecost
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  new positivity buzz

  Tess Ashton 31 May 2015

  I got my hair cut
  On Saturday
  felt I had a winner... more»
  Poetry, Pentecost, Holy Spirit
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  Spero: I Hope

  The Rev. Dr. Hilary Oxford Smith 26 May 2015

  The heavy cries of the swooping seagulls fell silent and a chill crept into the air as the Moon came between us and the Sun. The deep shadow, which formed first in the North Atlantic, swept up into the Arctic and at the North Pole became no more. As the recent solar eclipse reached totality and the irridescent crown of the corona surrounded the sun, words from Pádraig Ó Tuama's poem, In-between the sun and moon came to mind... more»
  Reflection, Meditation, Hope, Spring
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  Northern Lights in May

  The Rev. Dr. Hilary Oxford Smith 26 May 2015

  Hilary finds an antidote to unpredictable weather... more»
  Reflection, Meditation, May, Ascension, Anzac, Remembrance
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  Three stanzas for Christchurch

  Tess Ashton 15 May 2015

  the starry cathedral sky
  scattered sparks of desert sand
  merged into an orange molten hand
  fingers coloured the gleaming night... more»
  Poetry, Christchurch, Earthquakes, Cathedral
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  Hill and tree poems

  Tess Ashton 5 May 2015

  it's a dead tree talking
  warming the living
  saying love
  is complete... more»
  Poetry, Church
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  Midday Interruption

  The Rev. Gayanne Frater 18 April 2015

  Darkened sky,
  torrential rain,
  roiling thunder
  exploding overhead,
  road corner flooding within minutes... more»
  Poetry, Hope, Peace
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  Ground for Justice

  The Rev. John Fairbrother 26 March 2015

  New Zealand has a history of criminal trials and subsequent resolutions exposing miscarriages of justice. more»
  Meditation, Reflection, Justice, Reconciliation
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  Thoughts on a Clay Pot: written for an agnostic friend

  Margaret Lyall 18 February 2015

  I saw it on the Salisbury Centre stall.
  It was the shape that drew me - simple and symmetrical.
  Carefully I picked it up and turned it round
  to savour its perfection. more»
  Poetry, Life, Hope
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  Wonder

  The Rev. John Fairbrother 26 January 2015

  Contemplative experience is profoundly personal. The practice is about entering an inner vulnerability that may, mysteriously, reveal a sense of transcendent wholeness. more»
  Reflection, Meditation, Peace, Wonder
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  For the Advent Wreath

  The Rev. John Fairbrother 1 December 2014

  A first candle:
  Light, as breath,
  bringing life to
  islands, sky and sea.
  For creations gift,
  our prayer and praise. more»
  Candle Lighting Ceremonies, Advent
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  Letting Go

  The Rev. Gayanne Frater 13 November 2014

  Letting go,
  hands open,
  a gentle push
  and a wicker basket
  carrying treasured cargo
  floats down the Nile. more»
  Poetry, Courage, Hope, Mother, Child
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  The 13.30 from Inverness

  The Rev. Dr. Hilary Oxford Smith 24 October 2014

  There is something blissfully solitary about train journeys unless you feel minded to share stories with the traveller seated opposite who is, like you, bored with paperback melodramas, texting the world and fleeting fields. more»
  Reflection, Meditation, Travel, Faith, St. Paul, St. Luke

• Beyond the Gloom

  The Rev. John Fairbrother 19 September 2014

  The record of post-colonial deconstruction across Asia, Africa and the Middle East has illustrated the ultimate futility of military might and associated political advantage being a conveyor of cultural values and technology. more»
  Meditation, Reflection, War, Conflict
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  Road Trip Aotearoa

  The Rev. Gayanne Frater 16 July 2014

  Heart song rises
  as landscape shifts and changes
  at each turn of the road... more»
  Poetry, Heart, Song, Beauty, Love
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  A Solstice Story

  The Rev. Dr. Hilary Oxford Smith 21 June 2014

  Youthful midsummers were filled with heady playtimes, swimming with dolphins and dancing with seals, searching for crabs and other sea creatures in rock pools…our footsteps and shadows sending them into hiding. more»
  Solstice, Winter, Midsummer, John the Baptist, Light, Darkness

• Sport

  Susan Smith 16 June 2014

  I have just read a headline in the New Zealand Herald (6 June 2014) in which All Black coach Steve Hansen describes Jerome Kaino as "a caged animal" who will be doing all that he can to prove that he is at home among the big beasts of the international game. more»
  Meditation, Reflection, Sport, St. Paul
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  To be silent is to be unfaithful

  The Rev. Dr. Hilary Oxford Smith 12 May 2014

  World leaders and the media are speaking and writing much about 276 schoolgirls kidnapped over a month ago by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Nigeria. more»
  Meditation, Reflection, Freedom, Slavery
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