Do they know it’s Sunday?

Dear friends,

Time is running away with me again and October is nearly through.  But much of the busyness has been with my book which is going to be called ‘Inner Wellies – Reflections for an everyday spirituality’.  They are hoping to get it ready for the new year. 

My first new piece on my website http://www.janeupchurch.co.uk/ was written staying with friends in Sheffield.  Words are very evocative and reading them can take me back to where I was when I wrote them.  I often write on a Sunday morning when there is more time, and sitting in a garden removed from the outside world always feels different on a Sunday – more peace.

Do they know it’s Sunday?

Fairest of fair, a blue sky soaring, circling, winging, singing overhead with just a few light touches of white, spun out and stretched wide, and planes silently leaving their spun trails.  The sun is surprising the houses just beyond and tickling their roofs, and soon it must tumble over and find me waiting here in shadow.  It is so still when yesterday the wind was so fervent.  The trees take it, the remembered rough embrace, the present elegance. 

To read the rest go to http://www.janeupchurch.co.uk/view/words

And then a September piece, when autumn was just muscling in on summer and both were present in the fields and the trees.

September is a full month

September is such a full month, it holds summer flowers and autumn berries and winter leaves.  Everywhere you look there is a feast waiting to be tasted, a full palette of colour, and change rippling through the trees like the wash left behind by summer’s boat.  The horse chestnuts are first to succumb to the pull of Fall, brown crinkling and crumpling the leaves while the conkers tumble smooth and glossy. 

To read the rest go to http://www.janeupchurch.co.uk/view/words

Lastly a poem for Wordlive on Proverbs 16.1-19, on the wonder of how God works with us.

You work out everything

What kind of a king
is this?
I can live in the glow from
the brightening of your face,
I can bathe in your favour like
a rain cloud in spring.

To read the rest go to http://www.janeupchurch.co.uk/view/word-live

Do comment on any of my pieces when you visit my website (you can’t respond to this email).  Tell me your autumn thoughts and dreams, or your response to Proverbs 16!

Love Jane