Arts Articles
Quilted greetings
From flags to tapestries – fabric has often been used to communicate messages by using words and symbols. This quilt, stitched by British Friends, has been made to send loving greetings to all Quakers attending the World Conference of Friends 2012.
A bird meditation
Why did you come? Why did you come here? I came because nothing is asked of me here, but to just sit. Just sit quietly in silence.
Policeman, Stoke Newington
Standing close up to a policeman, I can get a free look at his uniform, its unrevealing midnight matt cloth and silvery buttons, its clever gussets, and places for his walkie talkie, yes, his walkie-talkie tucked under his tunic. Serious tailoring.
The Heron
The heron fishes in the tide With cans and crisp bags at his side I watched him fishing in the place where tide and river interface Midst mud and oil and salt and slime Patiently he takes his time
Settling
Not quite silence but on the other hand the ambient sounds diminish –
Departure
I am part of what once was But might be so again. Did we love once? Were we one? Two hearts with but a single rhythm?
Practising the Presence
There is a chamber of the mind prepared for me. When I am ready, willing to surrender. When I am quiet, I may enter there To find a place of stillness, a place already occupied By the light of the welcoming Presence.
Climb up to the moor
Judith Bromley paints as a way to discover, explore and express the relationship between her inner being and everything around her. She says: ‘For me, the process of drawing and painting is a meditative experience.’ Through this book, Judith’s painting and writing has also become a powerful ministry, creating...
Meeting for Worship
I lug this great laundry basket to Meeting Filled with damp twisted bundles of problems, tasks and commitments, And I shake them out one by one and peg them on the invisible line.
Meanings
There he was, standing among them, and they were startled and frightened and thought they were seeing a ghost (Luke 24:36-7). The risen Christ was not a disembodied spirit, in Luke’s view: he had the flesh and bone of a physical man; he could be touched, he could eat...