I have warm slippers
to slip my feet in
as I pad to the dark kitchen.
There is a slice of lemon
in my glug of sparkling water.
The house hums its night song
around me.
The pleasure of little things
is big as a mountain.
The Bones of Love: The Way of Jesus
The reign of unity
Scientists now tell us
that the nature of the universe
is unified.
There is interconnectedness,
interdependence and belonging
with the whole community
of our planetary home.
It is unity expressed in diversity
and the essence of its power and presence
is love.
It is what the mystics
have always said.
This is the good news
of ‘the kingdom of heaven’,
which translates from the Aramaic
as the reign of unity.
Jesus spoke of it as love
with peace and justice for all,
a place of wholeness.
It is unity with all creation
and with God.
Tethered
I am not chained to shore
but floating free on your surface,
tethered by your tide,
the sun licking my face,
the salt buoying me up
with the swell of your laughter.
I am a gull
hanging on your thermals,
high as a kite.
I am dissolving in you today
and will go which way
your wind blows.
I am clean with you,
stripped to bone and soul,
dripping with your delight.
You are so full
I might burst.
Lick me earthbound,
snuggle me soft as a puppy
asleep on your milk.
Inner Wellies: Creative Space for Soul Searchers
Each morning
I’m going to put on
my inner wellies
so I can splosh and slop
through all the floods and mud
life sends me
instead of tiptoeing round the edge
or getting stuck in the muck.