If Only For Once
If only for once it were still. If the not quite right and the why this could be muted, and the neighbour’s laughter, and the static…
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How Beautiful the Beloved
Steeling your heart, Yet what’s the use? . Already it’s stolen. Already the beloved Has captured the castle. . How defend yourself Against rapture? How…
Whenever I Say Your Name
This song is a ballad. But really it’s a hymn. It’s been a favourite of mine since I first heard it a decade ago.…
Feeling Safe With a Person . . .
Oh the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person: having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them out. Just as…
Turn Me Tender
It’s happened again, there’s a colourless skyIt’s dimmed me again, I’ve run out of whyHank Williams is grieving I’m scanning the psalmsit says when Jesus…
Loneliness Revisited
Loneliness, at a psychological level, if you go deeper, it’s solitude. Solitude is a mysterious kind of intimacy in which we are all united with…
Love Mischief in Winnipeg
A member of our extended A Rocha community passed away this January. Her name was Debbie, and she was a friend of the A Rocha-led…
Dying to Know You
Old streets don’t lead back where they used toWe blaze new trails to ancient placesI still love You just like I used toBut this love…
The Vindication of Feeling
The vindication of the importance of feeling in our life, and in particular its primacy over reason in all that has to do with man’s…
On Gambling
To a frog that’s never left his pond the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he’s giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition!…