A new "GOE"? - Thunderdome!

Bishops vs. Candidates for Ordination

To live, we must daily break the body

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation.

When we do it knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament.

When we do it ignorantly, greedily, destructively, it is a desecration.

- Wendell Berry

The Gift of Good Land

Lord it is night, from the New Zealand Prayer Book

Lord it is night.

The night is for stillness.

Let us be still in the presence of God.

It is night after a long day.

What has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been done.

Let it be.

The night is dark.

Let our fears of the darkness of the world and of our own lives rest in you.

The night is quiet.

Let the quietness of your peace enfold us, all dear to us, and all who have no peace.

The night heralds the dawn.

Let us look expectantly to a new day, new joys, new possibilities.

In your name we pray.

Amen

The Tomten

Thoughts for 2011

Some good thoughts, goals perhaps, for the new year...

"I am learning to shut up more in the presence of God." ~Archbishop Tutu

"Seven whole days, not one in seven, I will praise thee" 

~George Herbert, 1633.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world"

~Mahatma Gandhi