meditations

Quiet moments in your day to reflect and focus your thoughts. Meditations published here will help you to do just that. Some will be for personal use while others may be more suitable for public worship.

Mary

A meditation for Maundy Thursday inspired by the missing mention of the women who were, more than likely, in the background at The Last Supper. Suitable for use in a service alongside Passover: Peter.

Passover: Peter

Passover. Or at least that's how it began. Gathering together, just the twelve of us with him, and Mary and the others preparing the food.

Passover. Remembering all Israel's history, God's guidance and salvation … mercy … love.

"What makes this night different from any other night" … that traditional question … but the way Jesus told the story, so different from before, as if all the pieces suddenly fell into place, all the history had a purpose. It was almost as if he'd been there at each crucial point.

A Cosmic Drama

It was a wonderful meal that had been cooked, for me. Colour, taste, variety and I was hungry too. Radio 3 was playing in the background. It was a Saturday night so highly likely that we would get a touch of opera. Only this time it was Herr Wagner and his cosmic drama, the Ring of the Nibelung. We had, unbeknown to us, reached Act 3 of the second part and the ride of the Valkyries. The music was electrifying. Wagner had marshalled all of his musicality into this intense moment, and he sustains it for far longer than other composers, perhaps until he has engaged our full attention.

Fatherhood in Caulke Abbey

In the courtyard at Caulke Abbey the tables were laid out as if for summer. The trees were still winter-dark as the visitors teased the warmth from the March sun and sipped their tea. Not a flower in sight, yet there was this sense, this expectation, that Spring was arriving and would soon burst forth.

Free Spirit

This meditative prose by David Stolton tells God's story from Creation to Pentecost through the Spirit's eyes. It is designed to be read aloud, possibly with images and would last around 7 to 8 minutes, or perhaps might just be read for private reflection.

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