LIGHT IN THE WAKE OF A STORM The rain fell so hard today that the earth felt like it might wash away in one long flood of tears but when the dark lifted and the thunder drum gave up it’s final roll the last word belonged to the light for in the wake of the…
Category: Hope
Oceans
If I could wrap up the oceans
and enfold you in their tears
would their salty drops
encourage you to cry?
I Wish I Could Have Said Thank You in the Dark
I wish I could have said thank you in the dark
It would have been more heroic
I wish I could have stood my ground in courage
and planted my feet, fearless in the fog
Instead, I fell long and deep and slow…
One Day
When I scattered the stars in space
I knew one day you would see them
That one day they would lead you to me
When I made the waves roll on the sand
I knew one day you’d chase along them
That one-day they would lead you to me
I was thinking of you when I made the grassy hills
I knew one day you’d love to climb them
That one day they would lead you to me…
A God Nearby
A GOD NEARBY
When battles fought and battles lost
roll as waves upon my shore
when I with tired and weary soul
wouldst sink and breath no more…
Joy
I heard your spirit singing
through the cage of your skin…
A New Life
Something died
and fell long
and slow and deep
into darkness…
‘Good Friday’…
Hello Friends, It’s been a while since I wrote, because I have been working on another project. I’ll let you in on that in Just a moment… Well here we all are, sitting at home waiting for the storm to pass, waiting for the rainbow at the end of all this darkness. None of us…
That Day, This Day, One Day… Life in the Now and Not Yet
We live in the now and the not-yet, the space where darkness and light meet, the no-mans-land between the battle-lines of the Kingdom of God and the encroaching kingdom of darkness. As the battle rages around us, sometimes we fall, sometimes we stand, but always Light is on the move, confronting darkness with never fading…
Restoring Butterflies
A butterfly’s struggle to free itself from it’s cocooning chrysalis is difficult to watch. It’s easy to assume that a creature so small and delicate needs help against this ‘unnecessary’ struggle. We can be quick to reach for our well-meaning tweezers to help. However it is through this wrestle for freedom that essential chemicals are released and circulated throughout the butterfly’s…
Finding Life
Finding Life (on a walk in Holywell on our 12th wedding anniversary) If we push through, hurry past rush by and move fast… We may miss the small things. Small things like.. Glory Wonder Grace Small things that breath life into dark and empty spaces, Hurried, harried places. Places in the heart that have…
Peace On Earth
He stood on the edge of East Road, in Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica, scanning the plot of land before him, his mind was in another place, a place of big plans, high hopes and higher ideals. Barely out of adolescence, he had returned to Jamaica with a vision; Basketball. To use this sport as a…
A Small Corner in the Sun
One of the places I love most in all the world is here in Jamaica, in the small corner in the sun where the river meets the sea at Frenchman’s Cove. This is a place awash with memories of family moments. It is also the place where my four year old son first learned to…
Silence or the Song?
I travelled on a train over the summer break through emerald rolls of English countryside, drinking in green, soaking up light (albeit fairly dim light compared to Jamaican or Australian sunshine). It had been a long time since I watched the world whirl by me in this way. It reminded me of another train journey I…
