Can it be that somehow, we got it all wrong? Can it be that maybe we really can live together side by side trusting one another and living in peace. Maybe we really can have faith in one another, respect one another, share what we have so that no one is excessively rich or desperately … Continue reading AND CAN IT BE
Author: dennis
MEMORIAL
I thought of you today I remembered some of the times of the past and then I discovered you had died I don’t know when it happened or how Our paths once so close long ago parted and sent us in such different directions that we became strangers again maybe we always were Remembering you … Continue reading MEMORIAL
VULNERABLE
Opportunities present themselves in many ways And opportunities present for many reasons Today I was presented with an opportunity to learn something new about me To see something Understand something As if for the first time Heading out As I travelled further away from my safe base Fear invaded Infected And as though hands multiplying … Continue reading VULNERABLE
SOME TIMES
sometimes i visit second hand shops just to buy music that i know nothing about music from different cultures from different times from different faiths and i take it home and play it while i do mundane tasks and my mundane life begins to feel like i am living trapped in a movie complete with … Continue reading SOME TIMES
SEARCH
for so long I searched for me to find what really I needed was to simply allow me to be me and to know that I am safe in being
MUNDANE
And so For many years I searched and searched To find the key That illusive key. What it unlocked I did not know But I knew what it was Was all that was. I tried success fame wealth and power I tried study labour bondage and freedom I toyed with frivolity and comfort And kept … Continue reading MUNDANE
CHURCH
Life is always changing and every day new circumstances arise that bring, sometimes, challenge, learning, wonder and joy, sadness and struggle or a number of different responses from within us. Experience has brought me full circle to again grapple with the question of Church and what it is. The word stems from the Greek word … Continue reading CHURCH
KUN ILMA (BE WATER)
I don’t know what it is about my thoughts lately, but I find that I am recalling many of the conversations I have had with my Grandmother when I was a young lad. I find myself walking around, doing what I normally do, just my normal day and then I see something that reminds me … Continue reading KUN ILMA (BE WATER)
OTHERS
Forgiveness, justice, grace, love. These are the fundamental values of all faiths. They are hard to define within the same sphere as they have no definite boundaries but overflow into each other equally so that they form almost the one colour and yet, they are unique in their function … interdependent yes … but unique … Continue reading OTHERS
BELONGING
For a long long time, I looked for a place of belonging. I searched places where others shared the same interests, where faith was a common denominator, and found no place. I searched in places where pain is drowned in pretence or substance and still, I found no home. I engaged with career and climbed … Continue reading BELONGING
cracked not broken 