Updates from Whirlow
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The cycle of nature turns once more to Autumn. For some, a favourite season of vibrant colour and warming spices; to others a time of trepidation and fear as the cost of living and heating their homes rises. For this feast day of St Francis of Assisi, the Whirlow blog reflects on our shared kinship with each other, and with the cosmos, inviting us to follow the example of St Francis in becoming buds of hope beyond the leaf fall.
Read MorePoetry, faith and imagination can all help us time travel - or capture within our experience moments outside the present. This Whirlow Spirituality Centre blog opens up such ideas, which may be helpful when things are tough or wearisome - a common trial for many in January!
Read MoreIn the deepening winter, shepherds would need to watch their flocks by night. This week, we consider a seasonal bible reading and books by a modern-day shepherd as we listen for the pastoral voice calling us and wonder where it leads.
Read MoreToday, we offer a poem about St Francis of Assisi - whose feast day was last month - and another inspired by Psalm 131, a sacred song used at Whirlow this week.
Read MoreToday (10 September) is World Suicide Prevention Day and on Tuesday the Christian church will celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Today’s post incorporates a personal reflection by writer Adrian Scott, as we try to bind these troubling stories together.
Read MoreA homicidal ruler and a last-minute escape from the jaws of death are featured in today’s scripture - but it is in the realm of dreams, beneath those surface events, that we wander for inspiration. Could that landscape feature on your Lenten journey?
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