Kick in The Creatives
Here’s my very first attempt at Kick in the Creative’s 5-Minute March Challenge! ‘Kick,’ is an online site that gathers together …
Taking Time Out to Wonder
Holding Heaven was inspired by those famous opening words from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence. It’s a space where I try to reflect on the world as I see it: through creativity, pilgrimage, music, poetry, prose, prayer and just a little procrastination.
Here’s my very first attempt at Kick in the Creative’s 5-Minute March Challenge! ‘Kick,’ is an online site that gathers together …
In him was life, and the life was the light of all men. The light shines in the darkness and …
Read moreBible Journaling in John: The light shines in the darkness
Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give …
What does silence mean to you? I’ve been trying to tease out some of my own thoughts on this recently, inspired …
Silence is making-friends-with-time. It does not fight it or waste it, it refuses to run after it. Silence floats free …
Rembrandt: Return of The Prodigal Son, Attribution: public domain via Wikimedia Commons For Ash Wednesday: here’s another ‘prayer monologue’ …
© J Sigrist 2008
When is a ‘tangle’ not a tangle? Does it matter anyway? I’ve been reading Dormouse’s reflections and admiring her wonderful designs. I’ve …
Sherborne Old Castle, 2017Here’s one of what I’ve called my ‘prayer monologues.’ It’s based round the familiar account in John’s …
No artwork yet for this; sometimes the only pictures I need are there in my imagination, heart and soul. The …
Read morePilgrim Journey- Memories of an Autumn Evening in Wales: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises
A Happy New Year. Is your Christmas tree safely packed away in the loft? Should you be more more ecologically …
Sprawled in dreams
on distant hills,
shielding flocks
from dark dusk chill.
Star-burst sparks
sprayed them with light,
tearing rents
through bounds of night.
Wild angel praises
burst from high.
Impassioned message
blazed the sky,
Two thousand years;
the Shepherd still
shields his flock
from dark dusk chill.
© Jane Sigrist, Together With Children, Nov/Dec 1998, (The National Society)