It's still Easter
Easter was over a week ago, but it’s still Easter. Easter in the church lasts for fifty days until May 28th this year when we celebrate...
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eirenepalmer
- Nov 19, 2020
- 4 min
Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson...
eirenepalmer
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
Making A Choice?
I was reading Day 3 of the Principles the other day, and my hackles immediately rose. It says that the object of the Society of St...
eirenepalmer
- Oct 30, 2020
- 4 min
Being Known
To be known is a bit like coming home. To feel that someone else knows all your inconsistencies, your quirks, your foibles, your flashes...
eirenepalmer
- Oct 15, 2020
- 5 min
Room at the table
I have to hold up my hands and admit that sometimes in my life, I haven’t been very good at including others. Not others who aren’t like...
eirenepalmer
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
How can I be humble?
"Oh, no! I'm a very umble person. I am well aware that I am the umblest person going…, "let the other be where he may. My mother is...
eirenepalmer
- Sep 17, 2020
- 6 min
Faith in a matchbox
We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it...
eirenepalmer
- Sep 4, 2020
- 5 min
Joy. Do I know her?
The beating heart of the universe is holy joy Martin Buber Recently I saw a cartoon depicting God as a smiley Labrador seated on an...
eirenepalmer
- Aug 24, 2020
- 3 min
It's how you read it
'Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.' Rumi Reading the Bible has always felt to me like having to appease some...
eirenepalmer
- Aug 12, 2020
- 4 min
Lockdown Communion?
Yesterday was Sunday in lockdown. Three months ago, I wouldn’t even have known what that meant. I would have assumed you were talking...
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