tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39512075864295690882024-02-18T14:44:42.678+00:00Finally shall come the poet...TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-77953812221170471542024-02-18T14:43:00.000+00:002024-02-18T14:43:54.307+00:00Rainbow Weather<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I wrote this poem last month, when feeling quite low, but didn't share it. I was reminded of it today sitting looking out of my living room window at the strange mixture of grey clouds and sunshine, and then a rainbow appeared...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhghtEzvyAvUgLbU5kOVapqzR7B5epsAwsOzbeDE2Sz0Z0XmXkIOtLyZI9HfvdCBl8TocwrCCTsM87GPPVs9-5NqnArWKRy_c_WPYYzbfp96Z4drIM_EQIAHx3aiABAOoWZ_pnYxc5UKTa4Wjn8RdfHV_k_2Aoj6pdn04I_BRIns7HsnVGM1KuuIwokCI/s3648/IMG_20240218_141801.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhghtEzvyAvUgLbU5kOVapqzR7B5epsAwsOzbeDE2Sz0Z0XmXkIOtLyZI9HfvdCBl8TocwrCCTsM87GPPVs9-5NqnArWKRy_c_WPYYzbfp96Z4drIM_EQIAHx3aiABAOoWZ_pnYxc5UKTa4Wjn8RdfHV_k_2Aoj6pdn04I_BRIns7HsnVGM1KuuIwokCI/s320/IMG_20240218_141801.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some days there is a shift</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">in the quality of light;</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A fragile ray of hope</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cutting through the oppressive grey</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The overwhelming damp</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Transforms into sparkling drops</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And rising up</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From its unknowable source</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">An arc of crimson, teal and violet joy</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stretches out</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To touch what we cannot grasp.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some days there is a shift</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">in us;</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A whisper daring us</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To dream a little longer</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Risk reaching a little further </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Through the rain</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To creatively redefine our world</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Allow ourselves to believe that we can</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Find a different lens</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To bend the darkness</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Until all that is refracted</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Is the light of love.</span></p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-892939582453090552023-10-08T18:20:00.003+01:002023-10-08T18:20:38.052+01:00The Way<p><span style="font-family: arial;">My reading recently has revolved around journeys (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry which is a novel by Rachel Joyce, and God Unbound by Brian McLaren which charts his journey to the Galapagos and finding God in the wild), and in my pondering around the subject and reflecting on my own journey over the past year, I was reminded of a poem that I started to write in October 2022 at the point where I was considering changing job/career. I figured that it was time to finish it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Sometimes our journey can be surprising; sometimes it can take us years to find the right path, but I believe that we have a guide who never gives up on us.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjobHXnrJmit6P_KSwRrw5E09liLNrEbFWLHIxIykEUQAWszczL71ZASnVWNmurPnd7Syp746b3D0qe5mqtovfYi4nQihHPo0-snpBRO6nnN8RidaTPj7BaknvOvwvvqpBdnjZUyhRsUkYKkAxJi5pdHk_2yMIPytxOiLerk7WFhO9DBkB_lgX0PS43dVx_/s3648/IMG_20231008_181548_edit_128348582540308.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjobHXnrJmit6P_KSwRrw5E09liLNrEbFWLHIxIykEUQAWszczL71ZASnVWNmurPnd7Syp746b3D0qe5mqtovfYi4nQihHPo0-snpBRO6nnN8RidaTPj7BaknvOvwvvqpBdnjZUyhRsUkYKkAxJi5pdHk_2yMIPytxOiLerk7WFhO9DBkB_lgX0PS43dVx_/w301-h217/IMG_20231008_181548_edit_128348582540308.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You mark the lines in the sand</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">define the boundaries</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">plan the approach</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and lay out the path.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But stubbornly I choose another route,</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and stumble.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You raise the signposts</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">draw the arrows</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">stand with outstretched arms</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">point to the road ahead.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But I view the hazy horizon,</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and turn away.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Still you plot the course</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">set the bearing on my compass</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">write down directions</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and give me the map.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But as the needle wavers,</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I look elsewhere.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So you draw yet closer</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">hold the map</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and my reluctant hand.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Chart our trajectory,</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">illuminate</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and lead.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Until walking together,</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I find the way.</span></p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-14720418387682333562023-08-13T18:15:00.002+01:002023-08-13T18:20:08.743+01:00Relief<div><span style="font-family: arial;">The English word 'relief' has a multitude of meaning and uses. Back in January someone asked me if I felt relieved about something that was happening and it got me thinking... I looked at the various definitions in the dictionary and pondered how the word's origins are linked to the idea of being raised up or elevated. Then I wrote this:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTsuSQStX3_wmLb7_WFqctaZa5zpGlTI2WK_kNAV9tXIbxplj6zO3msqaYnd9MiOAUGmpDTiimJp3KLAFUp_cE2EYfthdjOGTOKy54L3_Ir3LosXnrA89mjNaW75FnetejAhWkMwoK3IoMblQssNvjBjyW7UtSZUGsqS9VRe_25NeGWyCINrMp__MoYQM/s3648/IMG_20230813_175353_edit_2245418946159449.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTsuSQStX3_wmLb7_WFqctaZa5zpGlTI2WK_kNAV9tXIbxplj6zO3msqaYnd9MiOAUGmpDTiimJp3KLAFUp_cE2EYfthdjOGTOKy54L3_Ir3LosXnrA89mjNaW75FnetejAhWkMwoK3IoMblQssNvjBjyW7UtSZUGsqS9VRe_25NeGWyCINrMp__MoYQM/s320/IMG_20230813_175353_edit_2245418946159449.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />You step in to take my place<br />when I am too worn out to work,<br />Provide assistance<br />when I am in need.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />In you I find respite <br />from the tension.<br />I sigh,<br />exhale,<br />and expand as the pressure lifts.<br />Released from this<br />too long carried,<br />crushing load.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />On this lowly canvas<br />you repeatedly stamp your mark<br />until the truth stands out.<br />My world is coloured <br />by your hand<br />mapping the highs and lows<br />with shades of hope.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />With contrast <br />and care,<br />you raise me up again.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><br /></p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-80473448910860341922023-08-10T11:07:00.002+01:002023-08-10T16:17:04.460+01:00Dry Bones<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I love the story in Ezekiel 37 of the Valley of Dry Bones... how God speaks to the bones:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Watch this: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;">I’m bringing the breath of life to you and you’ll come to life. I’ll attach sinews to you, put meat on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathe life into you. You'll come alive and realise that I am God!" (vs 5-6, Message version)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;">Some months ago I was reflecting on the story and how God choses to re-build bit by bit, layer on layer. It's not an instant all-at-once thing. God has an order of doing things so that the bones are truly made whole from the inside out. God's not in the business of surface restoration.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6bNHOFSf4DCrDEjr_IY36m-XKKNUrH_kL0bHfC4cf7KxMO4E1wbYHKsSDhoQm2AfNCNfWn1rWoADSIx_sV0FNlPkQp9flmLg6SYnyF7ZkG8foAjh-wTlLj2TKyzqkT2tjhzVPo8dTZ6pAjYJhNzjSp7hfNwnrMHVt_yRsseQtAlPoN8QUgMpKD98K7hQY/s1000/Dry%20bones.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6bNHOFSf4DCrDEjr_IY36m-XKKNUrH_kL0bHfC4cf7KxMO4E1wbYHKsSDhoQm2AfNCNfWn1rWoADSIx_sV0FNlPkQp9flmLg6SYnyF7ZkG8foAjh-wTlLj2TKyzqkT2tjhzVPo8dTZ6pAjYJhNzjSp7hfNwnrMHVt_yRsseQtAlPoN8QUgMpKD98K7hQY/s320/Dry%20bones.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For too long we laid</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">drained and dry</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">beneath the scorching sun</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">as if the heat could bring life</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">to our fragile broken bones.</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For too long waited</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">in the desert place</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">observing the desolation</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and hoping we’d have the strength</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">to somehow hold together.</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For too long</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">silent.</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But you spoke,</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">whispered truth to the winds</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">shook the foundations</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">of all we knew</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and promised to rebuild.</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bit by bit</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">layer upon layer</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">tendons, fresh and skin</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">unhurried in the re-construction</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">you ordered the scattered parts</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">of who we were</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">to make us who we are</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">standing whole again.</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And then you</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">breathed on us</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">and we,</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">inhaling the fresh air</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">of new possibilities,</p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">came to life.</p></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-58733236197487121362023-08-01T17:09:00.000+01:002023-08-01T17:09:48.865+01:00On the shores of Loch Long<p><span style="font-family: arial;">A lot has changed in my life over the past 10 months. And it's going to take a long time to emotionally process the changes. Finding space to just be and reflect and write a bit again helps. Here's todays offering:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAdg2P2WsYW5HblRJ0gPA3mdNagmeqKVA1l7wUKw0gXRXsqdYWF15n7WZP6ArMp582ZLAbPRLWess-IVDOjY-5UmRXcT7SjDsFmyJ0Qv5KtBqh5pWaN1NeFQ1N-zNAlXZrm9jHwd8oEYgcpbKoG_xnmTdGxrvuPiBYWbmokXgIzDZOA827dMSa9qp7vpIB/s3445/IMG_20230801_170538.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="3445" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAdg2P2WsYW5HblRJ0gPA3mdNagmeqKVA1l7wUKw0gXRXsqdYWF15n7WZP6ArMp582ZLAbPRLWess-IVDOjY-5UmRXcT7SjDsFmyJ0Qv5KtBqh5pWaN1NeFQ1N-zNAlXZrm9jHwd8oEYgcpbKoG_xnmTdGxrvuPiBYWbmokXgIzDZOA827dMSa9qp7vpIB/w400-h210/IMG_20230801_170538.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You take the high road,</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I’ll take the low road…</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Winding its way down</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To the shores of Loch Long</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Where the waves roll </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and over me.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here I allow myself to stop</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And breathe</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Observe the ebb and flow</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Depositing the fragments </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">of the years.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Detritus </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">and treasures.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here in silence</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I walk the shores;</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Acknowledge the debris</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The fragile strata</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Adrift and crumbling</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The pain of breaking</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Letting go.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Recognise the gems</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The precious stones</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Emerging from the battering</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Smooth and strong</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Seen again.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here in seclusion</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I hold the tangled mess;</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Accept </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">the weather-beaten knot</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Of frayed rope</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Unanchored</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Cast upon the shore.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cease </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">striving to find</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">or understand</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The beginning and the end</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But simply sit</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">With the threads I hold</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And weave into this fragile cord</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The pain and joy</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; 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<![endif]-->Over a month ago I had covid. I am still struggling with fatigue, constant muscle pain and brain fog. I feel unable to think half the time, never mind trying to write. But today, too tired to do much else, I lay in bed vaguely thinking about resilience (or lack of it) and reading a bit about various theories related to it. And wrote this piece.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oKGxj8k5JEfyByWdC6OSYa6IyGeA5_Bfc2y19T-cpSduYv86-uGTxHvQnYYf7BBMWm0Wc8OAntWo9UZ-rwLfMlrE5qepUox1odH_V7p2MFBCh7kPQBqkHNiyelNa8jZ03syZNSmQJbFkLOnkQDjENjuQ1zhIY-4SXvar0YI2sNnQVkHgrHSdz-FQ8w/s3648/IMG_20221005_165542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="2736" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oKGxj8k5JEfyByWdC6OSYa6IyGeA5_Bfc2y19T-cpSduYv86-uGTxHvQnYYf7BBMWm0Wc8OAntWo9UZ-rwLfMlrE5qepUox1odH_V7p2MFBCh7kPQBqkHNiyelNa8jZ03syZNSmQJbFkLOnkQDjENjuQ1zhIY-4SXvar0YI2sNnQVkHgrHSdz-FQ8w/s320/IMG_20221005_165542.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />Pull yourself together <br />and just get over it, <br />never really got there. <br />Forge on through <br />Grit your teeth strength, <br />gave up weakly. <br />Stressed <br />and compressed, <br />we choose to acknowledge <br />the forces <br />and constraints. <br />Choose just to be. <br />Present <br />and aware, <br />we face the mountains <br />head-on. <br />THAT <br />problem we perceive, <br />WHICH <br />we have the ability to reinterpret, <br />DOES NOT KILL US <br />we are still here. <br />Still responding <br />with conscious choices. <br />Surrounded by others, <br />we opt to take the next step <br />that <br />MAKES US STRONGER<br /><p></p><br /><p><br />
</p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-29981212253371409742022-08-24T18:53:00.000+01:002022-08-24T18:53:28.040+01:00WildAfter a busy few months that have kept me away, today I visited one of my favourite places. I was struck by the sudden explosion of growth in the valley. The things that I have been wrestling with, my questions and need for answers seemed to fall away as I walked up the hillside on a path that was hidden by toweringly high ferns and brambles. The view from the top was, as always, inspiring:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7nF6b188OV2vBUymXTVzTdwyxA3VhV7P6gdUvDRDMRlOw3ZRXjiFu_HcPthXoi9JoXcPg6WJdlfmHko5J7_ZOMaZCW23J8zoF5z_FCPuyqlpuwRviNiqpYBZyWaOb0shQstBcONTsydOqOjchhU0iWntXqAs5Xh0PHPexK2z5pVJSQFiMxWgoAhEafw/s3002/rewild%20photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="3002" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7nF6b188OV2vBUymXTVzTdwyxA3VhV7P6gdUvDRDMRlOw3ZRXjiFu_HcPthXoi9JoXcPg6WJdlfmHko5J7_ZOMaZCW23J8zoF5z_FCPuyqlpuwRviNiqpYBZyWaOb0shQstBcONTsydOqOjchhU0iWntXqAs5Xh0PHPexK2z5pVJSQFiMxWgoAhEafw/s320/rewild%20photo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Overgrown<br />not overwhelmed <br />This is the rewilding <br />of my soul <br />finding home <br />Returning <br />to its roots <br />Grounded <br />in the beauty <br />of hidden things <br />waiting <br />Walking <br />the secret path <br />Forging through <br />the thorns <br />Marked <br />by the ever-changing <br />seasons <br />of potential <br />This is the untamed <br />celebration <br />of hope.TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-70792731744747208292022-07-08T19:28:00.002+01:002022-07-08T19:28:50.106+01:00Scandalous Grace<p>It's been a while since I shared a poem. I've had one half written for several months... re-written it several times... today I decided to it was probably time to share my imperfect reflections.<br /><br />I had been thinking about the biblical story of the woman caught in adultery (John ch 8) and the idea of scandalous grace. According to the dictonary, the word scandalous means causing general public outrage by a perceived offence against morality or law. Grace breaks all the rules. The things that we perceive should be the case, the rules that bind us, the consequences of our failings - all are turned upside down by grace. It is scandalous. And marvelous.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZ5IUfW9gAoalDv77P6AnthfYIt9gVhp2sXRg0_QxkvCprrplkp5rTEuHOljD7Kb3PRzR5MHghdj_TxjmsRErZDzMMP8Hj7eRWL8C4ccbw3XYYZhUwsbdcbPpBn4Ot27SoA0bontcU4DZHSdQt0JWQncO7ksLxU8I0eC1-kVUrbIw-p0dxSvwCc8szA/s436/Screenshot_20220708_192629.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="402" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZ5IUfW9gAoalDv77P6AnthfYIt9gVhp2sXRg0_QxkvCprrplkp5rTEuHOljD7Kb3PRzR5MHghdj_TxjmsRErZDzMMP8Hj7eRWL8C4ccbw3XYYZhUwsbdcbPpBn4Ot27SoA0bontcU4DZHSdQt0JWQncO7ksLxU8I0eC1-kVUrbIw-p0dxSvwCc8szA/s320/Screenshot_20220708_192629.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Trapped <br />amid the faultless crowd, <br />Standing fearful <br />and paralysed by the past, <br />I wait. <br />They <br />lift their stones, <br />Raise their questions, <br />Call for justice - <br />Look at you. <br />But you <br />drop your eyes, <br />Stoop, finger in the dust, <br />Silently examine guilt, <br />And whisper truth. <br />This scandalous grace <br />Re-writes the scandal, <br />To leave me <br />Standing free.<br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-15457005923418894732022-03-09T20:38:00.003+00:002022-03-09T20:45:02.183+00:00Where we areThese past two weeks I have been thinking about the word grace and what it means but it somehow seems at odds with the unfolding war in Ukraine. The weeping eye mural painted in Cardiff by the street-artist MyDogSighs says more to me than the numerous news reports I read each day. What words can express the pain and sorrow? And how in the light of this situation can I write about grace?<div><br />I set today aside as a writing day. I wandered around the beautiful valley. Then read the news. I started to write about Ukraine. And then I started to write about grace. Neither was quite right. And then a friend suggested I write about both together. It was a passing comment, but I needed to hear it. She has been thinking about Thomas Merton’s words:<i> Humans have a responsibility to their own time… a responsibility to find themselves where they are, in their own proper time and place, in the history to which they belong and to which they must inevitably contribute either their response or their evasions, either truth and act, or mere slogan and gesture.</i><br /><br /> The following poem and images are my response to Where We Are.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGhyq5QCciM72r7C9ReqyiwaK0xrbcs_NIwKwZTSinopiQ-5p3ocvpm4onGR3p9DC4_iqIfj_z4QQxZKj2XjPJRT3BeostvOngqx_4u28Q4_M7ztfc4B7rTuf6li40qwlkD771Kqv3SNK-dCL0DxqiZb1u84Jf3HYbwb5no-oe6iJsDNlkqJcWDnyauQ=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGhyq5QCciM72r7C9ReqyiwaK0xrbcs_NIwKwZTSinopiQ-5p3ocvpm4onGR3p9DC4_iqIfj_z4QQxZKj2XjPJRT3BeostvOngqx_4u28Q4_M7ztfc4B7rTuf6li40qwlkD771Kqv3SNK-dCL0DxqiZb1u84Jf3HYbwb5no-oe6iJsDNlkqJcWDnyauQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p>Stay and rest a little <br />Weary wanderer <br />Eyes wet from weeping <br />Mute <br />Bombarded <br />Endless yet inadequate <br />Words penned by journalists<br />While two million flee <br />Run for refuge <br />Then wait <br />On this moss-cushioned seat <br />Look beyond the broken <br />And observe the beauty <br />See the signs of new life emerging <br />Rising from the dying lands <br />Ancient, storm-battered trees <br />Still reaching for the light <br />The river ever coursing its way through <br />Undeterred by obstacles <br />The gentle creatures <br />And faithful pairs <br />Standing together <br />Take a moment <br />Where you are <br />Open your eyes <br />To glimpses of grace</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</div>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-83203417150291764562022-02-02T19:00:00.003+00:002022-02-02T19:03:36.726+00:00Charis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTdLXmrfE6vuQL7Ge_hVCfUBSIskqyLYAmnQnNg5FMjlZXs-Uv2PMUnK6xfRdwxqz-tU1Zoof0nxnT4q8PYsYurZakq8vErFBRd7JLnq37IYg-BiP0v3VudVoi-v1vRdGmXQ9Vhc4jhGXZZW5dDs2fzYC2qZTik-l7DBXtOeaJZM8Cz2Rjk4Ho8AStJQ=s3112" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3112" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTdLXmrfE6vuQL7Ge_hVCfUBSIskqyLYAmnQnNg5FMjlZXs-Uv2PMUnK6xfRdwxqz-tU1Zoof0nxnT4q8PYsYurZakq8vErFBRd7JLnq37IYg-BiP0v3VudVoi-v1vRdGmXQ9Vhc4jhGXZZW5dDs2fzYC2qZTik-l7DBXtOeaJZM8Cz2Rjk4Ho8AStJQ=s320" width="238" /></a></div><br />When I was a student (over two decades ago now) a good friend and I used to meet up with our exhaustive bible concordance to delve into some word or other – hope, faith, etc. We’d look at where it was used and what the original Hebrew or Greek was that was translated into whatever English word we were focusing on and look into how else those original words were translated, and the context of the various passages. It was a way of looking at something and following whatever thread seemed to emerge. <br /><br />Today I decided my morning would be spent with my exhaustive concordance exploring the word Grace with an academic mind (so feel free to ignore this post if you were just seeking another nice poem). <br /><br />My studies followed many threads, but there was one that I thought I’d share: <br /><br />In the new testament of the bible the English word Grace is almost exclusively from the Greek word Charis. Only one occasion is another Greek word used – Charizomai, which is translated as “in grace gave” in Galatians 3 v 18. Elsewhere that word is usually translated as forgive or forgave. The passage references the law and the promise. It provides a contrast between the old covenant (with Israel) and the new (through Christ). Under the old covenant laws we always fail and fall short, and need God’s forgiveness and mercy. But the new covenant gives us a different starting point, we are loved unconditionally and receive God’s grace. The human condition hasn’t changed – we are still flawed and imperfect people. And God hasn’t changed. But our relationship to God has, because we’ve been adopted as children. <br /><br />A few years back I became friends with a couple who had come to Swansea seeking asylum. Shortly after arriving they had a daughter. Initially I thought that they had given her the Welsh name Carys, but then they explained that it was spelt like charismatic. Charis.<div>Grace. <br /> Interestingly the Welsh name Carys means Loved one. <div>Interwoven threads…</div><div><br />I thought of Charis this morning and pictured her held in her mother’s arms. And I concluded that (for today at least) Grace is not about being showered with abundant undeserved gifts, it’s about being loved unconditionally by father/mother God and held in his/her arms. <br /><br />God’s <br />Reaching <br />And <br />Complete <br />Embrace.</div></div>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-92229311076961933082022-01-12T18:21:00.000+00:002022-01-12T18:21:44.675+00:00Grace<p>Some years back I heard a friend of mine say that she usually has a word or a phrase for the year. I liked that idea, but don’t often have a clear sense of a word for each of my years. However, on the eve of 2022 I had a strong feeling that my word for this year is Grace. <br /><br /> I am trying to have a pattern of taking a day once a fortnight out of the busyness of my hectic life to just breathe and think and write. I hope, over the year, to look at different aspects of the word Grace and all it means to me… there maybe multiple poems and reflections... or it might just be this one. After all, grace comes with no conditions attached! <br /><br /> <i>This is written in memory of my friend, Jennifer Crossley (5/9/68-5/12/21)</i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEZnVQXMtQQ-XBQH5eu-XjA0BjBu5r6Bih8iERlzDoh3-vB9wYow_SM6nqBT4JaRVYvhq8fOHOiNHb9HjobCmjC6_mt-ABljt7pupvPGH61vBw6PrebjlcGZD8mmpMbJWVqrAAKoPST6Nb5ldudrmAXJz7G_CxVWKWkfnCPo-ePfOlwf-unSPyAt4_XQ=s3648" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="2736" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEZnVQXMtQQ-XBQH5eu-XjA0BjBu5r6Bih8iERlzDoh3-vB9wYow_SM6nqBT4JaRVYvhq8fOHOiNHb9HjobCmjC6_mt-ABljt7pupvPGH61vBw6PrebjlcGZD8mmpMbJWVqrAAKoPST6Nb5ldudrmAXJz7G_CxVWKWkfnCPo-ePfOlwf-unSPyAt4_XQ=w230-h307" width="230" /></a></i></div><i><br /></i>In this darkness <br />There is space for grace. <br />In the conflict <br />There is room for kindness, <br />The elegant act <br />Of a hand outstretched <br />Poised in friendship. <br />In the heartbreak <br />And confusion, <br />Undeserved, <br />Unrestrained, <br />Grace extends <br />A welcome embrace. <br />And lights a candle. <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-37484543277317311032021-12-04T18:51:00.000+00:002021-12-04T18:51:38.863+00:00Joy<p>November was not the easiest of months for me, but I focused on the positives each day - finding breathing space and moments of joy. This week I managed to take a morning off work and chores to just sit, read and reflect. I opened up 'Benedictus - A book of Blessings' by John O'Donohue and read the blessing For Equilibrium:<br /><br />As the wind loves to call things to dance,<br />May your gravity be lightened by grace...<br />May your prayer of listening deepen enough<br />To hear in the depths the laughter of God.</p><p>It reminded me of a moment last week when I was out walking my dog. It was a wet and very windy day but, despite the greyness, in the silence of nature I felt an unusual lightness in my spirit. I walked through a sheltered part of the park and watched the leaves falling from the trees. I was reminded of a similar day years ago when my children and neices and nephews were young and ran laughing and dancing around those very trees as their leaves fell. And I reconised the joy in letting go.<br /></p><p>I wrote this poem this week. And then I danced (because I was in a space where nobody was watching)!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf70bPaHbkhEeD8ewiY1WlU52sEO_dTK_REJZx4Bz5o1nmm0m2IgfbURe9DVCIxw1MLsxtH_dRKDqCuSOZuwcUeXp57HN7QApHzYVvHJd0qMKqHMMM3V2uc6I5iUtIRR6_GKC5BJXQ1se8HChFcLWFL89FdSyFNua_VQVorz_7IfLX4arVoxlZJjJyZw=s1967" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1483" data-original-width="1967" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjf70bPaHbkhEeD8ewiY1WlU52sEO_dTK_REJZx4Bz5o1nmm0m2IgfbURe9DVCIxw1MLsxtH_dRKDqCuSOZuwcUeXp57HN7QApHzYVvHJd0qMKqHMMM3V2uc6I5iUtIRR6_GKC5BJXQ1se8HChFcLWFL89FdSyFNua_VQVorz_7IfLX4arVoxlZJjJyZw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p>Out in the wide open spaces <br />I want to dance <br />In the rain <br />Beneath the trees <br />Fling wide my arms <br />And welcome you <br />Welcome the change <br />The advancing seasons <br />The stages of growth <br />And death <br />The letting go <br />Of all that was <br />To welcome what’s to come <br />And I may look a fool <br />Spinning here <br />But here <br />The weighty things fall away <br />Unrestrained <br />And carried by the wind <br />I welcome joy <br />And dance</p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--></p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-12991190698003539432021-10-06T16:51:00.001+01:002021-10-06T16:54:57.272+01:00Thin Places<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Last month I took a trip to the Scottish
island of Iona. It is a historic place of pilgrimage and has been described many
times as a “thin place where only tissue paper separates the material from the
spiritual”. Stepping out of my busy life, I expected to find lots of space on
my trip to think and reflect, but instead found other busyness took over for
much of it. However, I did come away with memories of a couple of significant
moments (like the night where my friend woke me at 3am just to drag me outside
in the freezing cold darkness to look at the stars!), and a determination to
make more time in my busy life for deliberate breathing space.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Today’s deliberate space started with an early
morning walk around the local park and little lake with my dog, where I paused
to take in the sights and sounds of the beautiful autumn day. And then I went
to a friend’s valley to sit and write. Immediately after Iona I had started to
pen a poem about thin places – picturing myself standing as still as I could on
tiptoes, reaching up with outstretched fingertips, straining to touch the
spiritual. Today I binned that picture. There is no vast gap for us to traverse
with massive effort, but rather multitude of places (from remote Scottish
islands to the little park in the centre of the city) where worlds may quietly touch.<br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV_TYdzV9Ey5lQSHZ_5ncqgcahFLQT5liuoVVLdpyjdXBxWENeWi6V9w_4XpbZTh9D94eRHbK1Ukn3tZgVEepGXfKD4Rd7QFfe56cY0Y2X_Frj7zL2u38HDJABxC_xnvHRtbEsYQbx48Mu/s2048/IMG_20211006_091955.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV_TYdzV9Ey5lQSHZ_5ncqgcahFLQT5liuoVVLdpyjdXBxWENeWi6V9w_4XpbZTh9D94eRHbK1Ukn3tZgVEepGXfKD4Rd7QFfe56cY0Y2X_Frj7zL2u38HDJABxC_xnvHRtbEsYQbx48Mu/s320/IMG_20211006_091955.jpg" width="320" /></a></span><br /><br />Sat motionless in the middle of the cold night, <br />Gazing at a billion galaxies <br />brightly shining above me <br />I am enveloped in the silence <br />and the warmth of wonder. <br />Here are the thin places. <br />Pausing at the break of the bright new day, <br />Noticing the vastness of heaven <br />reflected in the depths <br />I welcome this mysterious border <br />at the boundary of my fragile life. <br />For here in the thin places <br />we meet. <br />Not a desperate reaching out or crossing over <br />from one realm to the next, <br />But a convergence of all that is <br />and all that shall be. <br />And moulding together the fragments of my divided self <br />you make me whole. <br />Here in this thin place.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC1d4K1LQB3h_VG7ZDAsIKwOvMarHxZvoXVQV4Ttdix8cBkc6TwlDWMuabWwNOr7V2IAQWFdGGnt9aLFdYT8eUeB-RxDkoXHGJn1azYtalW5g7YEn7YYDONBc9WdSC0mWvN6k1Z-2QH75K/s2048/IMG_20211006_091955.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /></span><p></p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-79866226356195269192021-08-08T16:42:00.001+01:002021-08-08T20:17:28.625+01:00Gaps<p>I have never written consistently - poetry, my journal, random posts on facebook or whatever - there have always been gaps. I have a friend who writes a blog post every day. I admire her, but I know I won't ever do that. For me life happens, and I fall silent for a bit.<br /></p><p>Today I was walking my dog and pondering the gaps. Wondering if people notice the moments when I am not saying anything, and wondering what they read into that? Sometimes I fall silent because there is other positive stuff taking up my time and I am busy having fun with my family, but at other times it is less positive and I retreat because I am struggling with anxiety or depression. Often I have wished I could be rid of those less positive pauses in my life. However, my pondering today led me to recognise that to be fully me, I need all the gaps, irrespective of how they feel at the time. And I wrote the poem below in celebration of that.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtvZDzmly62PXMFMvOYqk3Vs22fr6lX56poN4hJE87iIhr-5tFT4hsGMpaxjuvn-NlzzpI__2P6Wi-sBChpNsuZomYtikmOxwFnDzbvd2_eYoxT8xv0E9FYZIahvBGY1G4bQnDPveIx_de/s2048/IMG_20210808_155556_edit_247480300999737.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtvZDzmly62PXMFMvOYqk3Vs22fr6lX56poN4hJE87iIhr-5tFT4hsGMpaxjuvn-NlzzpI__2P6Wi-sBChpNsuZomYtikmOxwFnDzbvd2_eYoxT8xv0E9FYZIahvBGY1G4bQnDPveIx_de/s320/IMG_20210808_155556_edit_247480300999737.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />In the spaces between my words, <br />And in the gaps <br /> between <br /> my lines, <br />You will find me. <br /></p><p>--<br /> <br />In the paragraph I chose to skip, <br />And in the silent moments <br />as I tell my tale, <br />You will hear my story. <br /><br />On the days I did not write, <br />Or had little to say, <br />On the days when efficient productivity <br />was superseded <br />by immobilising anxiety, <br />On those days, <br />You will find <br />I am still me. <br />Fully me. <br />In the gaps, <br />And in the silence. <br />For true music is formed <br />by the rests <br />between the sweet chords, <br />And harmony only created <br />by the inclusion <br />of the many differing notes. <br />So, take note of the pauses. <br />This is the symphony of my being.</p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-22900765917430871012021-06-18T22:39:00.004+01:002021-06-19T12:20:42.447+01:00Time for Beauty<p>The charity I work for runs a Foodbank. In addition to receiving public donations of dried and tinned foods that make up the basic food parcels we supply to those in need, on three evenings a week we pick up food from a local supermarket just after closing time. Food that has reached its sell-by date, had its packaging slightly damaged, or just been overstocked. Perfectly good food that can’t be sold but can be taken by us and offered freely to the hungry. </p><p>Sometimes we are given other expiring items like bunches of flowers. </p><p>Once, there was a plant. </p><p>A few withered leaves and bare stalk. Considered worthless, it was thrown out. And possibly would have been thrown away if I had not seen it. For about 9 months it has sat on my windowsill. I have watered it and waited. Last month a bud appeared. Now the orchid is flowering. Every time I look at its delicate beauty it brings me joy. More joy than it would have done if I had just gone to the shop and bought it perfect condition. </p><p>One of my fears for my children is that they are living in a world that moves so fast, with everyone expecting instant results, that they might miss out on knowing the deep joy that comes from waiting. <br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Mf1aSdIkZG5QPRTDE5Bdyki94X8g8mHssrWFMotEoQYyQpZ6WlZlEm057koMBsXZFuBSxB6GY2FnG6aJMia5epuTxKa7blA4T-6YqlKOyU-AGN_gNbwlJ60g09ZjcQcOXqTE5Yrfzc3t/s2048/IMG_20210616_082010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Mf1aSdIkZG5QPRTDE5Bdyki94X8g8mHssrWFMotEoQYyQpZ6WlZlEm057koMBsXZFuBSxB6GY2FnG6aJMia5epuTxKa7blA4T-6YqlKOyU-AGN_gNbwlJ60g09ZjcQcOXqTE5Yrfzc3t/s320/IMG_20210616_082010.jpg" /></a></div><br />There is a time for everything, <br />and a season for every activity under the heavens. <br /><br />In this high-speed world <br />of fast food <br />and instant messaging, <br />Child, do not be so eager <br />to avoid the wait, <br />do not confuse the dormant <br />with the dead, <br />nor overlook the potential <br />of the slow. <br /><br /> Know there is a greater joy <br />in the anticipation <br />of the blooming, <br />in the evidence <br />of hope not misplaced, <br />than in the hasty <br />grab and go, <br />split-second gratification <br />of the quick. <br /><br />There is a time for everything, <br />and everything is made beautiful in its time.<p></p><br />TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-71650234471118413762021-05-16T21:34:00.000+01:002021-05-16T21:34:07.364+01:00The River<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOTKpA94djXislwnUEX-X7sXbnjiMKvp7GYVV3Kh8dgbAHmIPYawdld50uvtimdHP67YMSbrn8fBKYApncgrBRlutORMMEGbc131j7pvkREKma409688AiY3FVwDQdbRawj9f0pOK0z0E/s2048/IMG_20210516_204422.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOTKpA94djXislwnUEX-X7sXbnjiMKvp7GYVV3Kh8dgbAHmIPYawdld50uvtimdHP67YMSbrn8fBKYApncgrBRlutORMMEGbc131j7pvkREKma409688AiY3FVwDQdbRawj9f0pOK0z0E/s320/IMG_20210516_204422.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"></div><p>Continuing on the theme of beach wanderings, the other thing that often grabs my attention is a river that I regularly cross on my walks. The river is always there, but it is never exactly the same - we'd be surprised if it was, because we know that rivers flow and move and change course. Change is an expression of the life a river has. So I wonder why we sometimes are surprised or fearful when we encounter the same in our own lives?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghdKziOx5MKQ7v0zhjHxhgmVO13CBOvh2C0wDn4wqpYQokwTZjSBT_RCHXXibk4NN033zenvkBWapx2DKPNe9SSpopJ7j4uVvbEsjKK3uzafUR_xVwHM0CixnTEJUqiej4NyH0rS_i3exL/s2048/IMG_20210516_203946.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghdKziOx5MKQ7v0zhjHxhgmVO13CBOvh2C0wDn4wqpYQokwTZjSBT_RCHXXibk4NN033zenvkBWapx2DKPNe9SSpopJ7j4uVvbEsjKK3uzafUR_xVwHM0CixnTEJUqiej4NyH0rS_i3exL/s320/IMG_20210516_203946.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>We stand at this fragile border <br />watch the river cut its course. <br />See the shifting boundaries <br />and discarded debris, <br />as the once familiar landscape <br />silently transforms. <br />We have passed this way before, <br />but now we pause - <br />marvel at the motion, <br />watch the emerging patterns <br />briefly establish <br />and slip away, <br />acknowledge change <br />is a certainty <br />for things that move.</p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-54054287168406149162021-05-06T17:19:00.000+01:002021-05-06T17:19:50.407+01:00Exposed<p><br />It’s been a while since I wrote a poem. There have been a lot of half formed ideas and musings but nothing concrete that I wanted to share until this: <br /><br />In my recent beach wanderings I have been fascinated by a couple of exposed old tree stumps; they are well worn and must have been there for years buried under the sand but only now, because the beach profile has undergone natural changes, can we see them. It made me think about the people I have known for years and how they have changed over time. This poem is for the people who I now truly see.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH9doJ_ZfxgifXtyt-CQEKNDBK8i3Mw4aTRJ3TOPpjKev1uA3jhcQ_EWcsMCUDCPhg_ZulsjtyDOfEysqkraGvKWe_IdtjcjMn27S3lCeik2jpl2k1Gl-wDeVB58rLDI9vRvD75ybBr0Yl/s2048/IMG_20210501_184057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH9doJ_ZfxgifXtyt-CQEKNDBK8i3Mw4aTRJ3TOPpjKev1uA3jhcQ_EWcsMCUDCPhg_ZulsjtyDOfEysqkraGvKWe_IdtjcjMn27S3lCeik2jpl2k1Gl-wDeVB58rLDI9vRvD75ybBr0Yl/s320/IMG_20210501_184057.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>And you have weathered storms <br />that shifted sands<br />and rocked the boat.<br />Stood your ground <br />while certainties slipped away <br />beneath the waves <br />of change.<br />Remained here.<br />Forever dependable,<br />but not unaltered,<br />As the receding tides <br />expose your fragile layers <br />and reveal the beautiful truth <br />of who you have always been. <br /><br /> </p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-44923076329002565102020-12-31T13:32:00.005+00:002020-12-31T13:55:03.833+00:00Immanuel<p> This Christmas the one word I have kept coming back to is "Immanuel", the name given to Jesus in Matthew's account of the virgin birth. But the verse in the gospel is a quote from the old testament scriptures. </p><p>Isaiah chapter 7 tells a story from around 735BC when Ahaz was king of Judah. Israel is divided and the northern kingdom is marching against Jerusalem in order to tear apart kingdom of Judah. God speaks to the prophet Isaiah and tells him to go to Ahaz with a message. Ahaz is told to not be afraid nor lose heart, and then God tell him to ask for a sign. However, Ahaz refuses saying that he will not put God to the test...<br />Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of God also? Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel." <i>Isaiah 7 v 13&14</i><br /></p><p>It seems a strange sign for God to promise in the midst of the battle. And stranger, yet, when you consider that it was not fulfilled until centuries later. But the more I have looked at this story, the more parallels I see between the struggles faced at time of Ahaz, the story of Jesus's birth and life, and the state of the world in which we now live.<br /> </p><p>This may not seem a very Christmassy poem, but this is Immanuel - God with us. Here and now.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj41MBrcY11kWQVyGk3CJxLN9XUeyP3U_oEXr5yREEZc8LXFqcEQxpDnis4BVdSriOAulLhWBhVtwvxopPQZ4UGF3JlYOPd8OvfFUoNuWz_6zkaQ7wcgwkcgvZ14WVBTFyd5BY3fVbLNTgj/s2048/IMG_20201231_132632.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1393" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj41MBrcY11kWQVyGk3CJxLN9XUeyP3U_oEXr5yREEZc8LXFqcEQxpDnis4BVdSriOAulLhWBhVtwvxopPQZ4UGF3JlYOPd8OvfFUoNuWz_6zkaQ7wcgwkcgvZ14WVBTFyd5BY3fVbLNTgj/s320/IMG_20201231_132632.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />You are with us here. <br />Here, where the wars rage <br />and nations quake with fear <br />divided <br />and broken <br />once-united peoples <br />fall. <br />Here, where treaties are debated <br />and signs are offered <br />tested <br />and rejected <br />with pious purity <br />man lies. <br />Here, with the forgotten people <br />seemingly insignificant for centuries <br />silent <br />and unnoticed <br />gathering on the margins <br />of faith. <br />Here, with the virgin <br />meek and mild. <br />Here, with the child <br />broken and rejected. <br />Immanuel. <br />You are with us here. <br /><br /> <p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-42572525287044759012020-10-11T11:21:00.001+01:002020-10-11T11:22:38.442+01:00Shoreline #3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfAGYYwQheojAsg_a4ZKQCDnMwtEqWNV76OJ9U3PQGhAMQw98fNK4thxIPXdVixpmszmHZVohvQB8RADnaqEFzRAVjNnaPZXFPNevqSbf5E9gVxPtob1GXQfMHxOHMUmo1rLggmrQSsV-/s2048/IMG_20201011_110940.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1302" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfAGYYwQheojAsg_a4ZKQCDnMwtEqWNV76OJ9U3PQGhAMQw98fNK4thxIPXdVixpmszmHZVohvQB8RADnaqEFzRAVjNnaPZXFPNevqSbf5E9gVxPtob1GXQfMHxOHMUmo1rLggmrQSsV-/s320/IMG_20201011_110940.jpg" /></a></div><div>I see you. <br />Recognise the shattered remnants <br />of protective shells cast aside, <br />See paltry mountains rise and fall <br />overwhelming you as you slide, <br />Note the sculpted trail of contours <br />formed by paths you’ve tried, <br />Burrowing deep beneath the layers <br />silently you hide. <br />But I see you.
</div>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-19378761432437215552020-10-10T19:48:00.004+01:002020-10-10T19:48:46.022+01:00Shoreline#2<p>Beneath the sand of Swansea Bay is a layer of blue clay. Twenty five years ago it was barely visible - I recall a field trip as part of my civil engineering degree where we all donned wellies and trekked across the sand to dig holes and study the stuff. Nowadays it lies exposed in lumps moved along the shoreline.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jqV4r7fjrVBkwz-B3OUM3VHMbTbMuKVF8XAFmzDjPVmRQAvBE3UUfh6kt1uoWl4uVFw7A8II2NQETqi6pOa0Q8G12pb5Bqx2QPdredqo_uATIPOYvhe9QwkeHtazHFHWaySiotEzq-zk/s2048/IMG_20201010_194254.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1766" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jqV4r7fjrVBkwz-B3OUM3VHMbTbMuKVF8XAFmzDjPVmRQAvBE3UUfh6kt1uoWl4uVFw7A8II2NQETqi6pOa0Q8G12pb5Bqx2QPdredqo_uATIPOYvhe9QwkeHtazHFHWaySiotEzq-zk/s320/IMG_20201010_194254.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Lifted from your bed of slumber, <br />you embrace the change. <br />Smoothly moulded <br />by the movement <br />of the rolling waves. <br />But tides do turn <br />and shunned by sea <br />you return to shore. <br />Tumbling slowly over land, <br />unwittingly exposed. <br />Embedded here <br />remains the debris <br />of your journey’s end. <br />Sands will shift <br />and you will rest <br />hidden from sight once more. </p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-62335576679887716092020-10-09T15:54:00.000+01:002020-10-09T15:54:42.166+01:00Shoreline #1I have always found the coast fascinating. Memories of geography field trips and family holidays to the southern coast of England where over the years I observed the power of the sea eroding the land, as rocks crumbled and the paths I walked on as a toddler sank beneath the waves. Then I moved to south Wales and observed a different set of processes, the sand shifting around the bay causing dunes to rise up one end while exposing bedrock and clay at the other. And an awareness of the increasing battle between nature and mankind as bulldozers regularly redistribute the sand back along the beach, and the sea deposits along the beach the rubbish we have let pollute it.<br /><br />I walk along the shore almost daily. Often my eyes are drawn to the open expanse of sea, and it inspires me. However, this week I decided to challenge myself to write a number of short poems that focus more on the shore itself. This is the first.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-Qp1GGy0FQFZ5uiE2uwolAk-_qDYhFBroSKCaNBhJbi767ZqHma5yLj6XKIZG9bB76EFUbNHNVcAn1XNsaA1ootjlnqETUjYJ96vOMkuCJ9QBi2dz9DRNHmCfJAx4NiOQydgdlNsjM8Q/s2528/IMG_20201009_155000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="2528" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-Qp1GGy0FQFZ5uiE2uwolAk-_qDYhFBroSKCaNBhJbi767ZqHma5yLj6XKIZG9bB76EFUbNHNVcAn1XNsaA1ootjlnqETUjYJ96vOMkuCJ9QBi2dz9DRNHmCfJAx4NiOQydgdlNsjM8Q/w400-h196/IMG_20201009_155000.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Along this boundary<br />between fluid movement<br />and solid ground<br />you will find the scattered pieces<br />of what was<br />and what will be.<br />Hope <br />and heartache<br />lie exposed <br />by ever changing tides<br />as man and nature<br />draw their battle lines.</p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-36705343837538719682020-10-07T12:30:00.000+01:002020-10-07T12:30:50.497+01:00Held<p>As the global pandemic continues, I am aware of the widely differing thoughts, opinions and approaches that surround me; news reports and analysis all seem to contradict and, at times, I find myself unsure which way to turn as I question what is true, and how best to protect those I care about. It is easy to end up feeling alone in trying to make sense of it all.<br /><br />Last weekend I was reminded of a poem I wrote for the <a href="https://www.presenceproject.com/">Presence Project</a> on the theme of Protection. It was based on Proverbs 4v6:<br />"Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her and she will watch over you."<br /><br />It was good to be reminded, once again, that I am not alone and I don't need to rely on my wisdom to get through this. I am held and supported - by friends, family, and by the One who is above all. So I am putting this here today (along with a cute picture of my puppy because that always helps!) in case you too need reminding that you are not alone.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijesqJpg9qtJjzSHlxYR-Jq2ryRKZfPAt4k9dQC_hq0ie-yTcv6EKa5z6DyvRRWy_7pdIPv8FsBC8uZMHdZkag3H-xWVZbSIXw2WEtEo9OiV5nNXy-oOH7H8K89ahms_NLmCVrrbitKXO1/s1537/IMG_20191006_141344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="1537" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijesqJpg9qtJjzSHlxYR-Jq2ryRKZfPAt4k9dQC_hq0ie-yTcv6EKa5z6DyvRRWy_7pdIPv8FsBC8uZMHdZkag3H-xWVZbSIXw2WEtEo9OiV5nNXy-oOH7H8K89ahms_NLmCVrrbitKXO1/s320/IMG_20191006_141344.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p>In arms secure we are cradled<br />Nurtured here with hidden strength <br />Whispered through the fearful night <br />Mother’s words <br />our comfort. <br /><br />Stepping out we seek our own paths <br />Weighty teachings laid aside <br />Deaf, we turn to walk away <br />Forgetting, <br />we are exposed. <br /><br />Wandering lost through desert lands <br />Until enfolded in your shadow <br />Experience and insight entwined <br />Father’s truth <br />our shelter. <br /><br />Drawn together in shafts of light <br />Illuminating the darkest corners <br />Watching over one another <br />Brother’s wisdom <br />our protection.</p><br /><br />TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3951207586429569088.post-22047772198273917162020-09-05T20:12:00.002+01:002020-09-11T23:25:29.050+01:00Blessing<div style="text-align: left;">These past couple of weeks, I have thinking about Blessings - partly from reading John O'Donohue's <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/107/1071514/benedictus/9780593058626.html">Benedictus </a>and partly due to the new <a href="https://www.presenceproject.com/a-blessing">A Blessing</a> chapter just released by the Presence Project.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">This week, as my children return to school, I have also been thinking
about routine. I like patterns, I like to have structure in my
day, to divide things into manageable chunks (and to be able to achieve
something within those periods). And I have always found something
attractive about the monastic way of life, not that I have any desire to
be a monk/nun, but the idea of a regular pattern of drawing aside for prayer and worship - matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, compline - marking the passing of time throughout the day with an awareness of God's presence. The blessing I wrote below has arisen from this idea.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nkWkIkvTlnacsPgC7MU6FTLbkTYy9Z7vGmcsASosCO_LD-GprBDo5ICwGuATjIHuj6FuTBbHCEQpdiZCfdWh2B0dyuy7Eajsq5GRt4agPVvNc5gMccfg-G9a-cirkEIr4_Nt04leXcrf/s2048/sunset.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nkWkIkvTlnacsPgC7MU6FTLbkTYy9Z7vGmcsASosCO_LD-GprBDo5ICwGuATjIHuj6FuTBbHCEQpdiZCfdWh2B0dyuy7Eajsq5GRt4agPVvNc5gMccfg-G9a-cirkEIr4_Nt04leXcrf/s320/sunset.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">May you wake to the sound of singing as day dawns,</div><div style="text-align: left;">a chorus of praise rising from creation,</div><div style="text-align: left;">And know that you are surrounded.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">May you feel the warmth of the sun on your face as you rise,</div><div style="text-align: left;">the gentle kiss of your heavenly mother,</div><div style="text-align: left;">And know that you are loved.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">May you pause in your busyness,</div><div style="text-align: left;">at intervals throughout the day,</div><div style="text-align: left;">cease your toil,</div><div style="text-align: left;">and lift your head.</div><div style="text-align: left;">May your eyes be opened to the wonder of life,</div><div style="text-align: left;">bestowed by the creator on his created,</div><div style="text-align: left;">And know that you are included.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">May you not hesitate to lay aside your doing as dusk falls,</div><div style="text-align: left;">rest from your striving and simply be,</div><div style="text-align: left;">And know that you are accepted.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">May you lie down with tranquility at the end of the day,</div><div style="text-align: left;">cradled in your heavenly father's arms,</div><div style="text-align: left;">And know that you are safe. <br /></div><p><br /></p>TracyInghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00626372018649174044noreply@blogger.com0