A harbour of peace

Dear friends,

As you will have gathered I write a lot of my pieces sitting in my garden, absorbing the day.  I have a gravel garden at the far end surrounded by laurel and hawthorn and ferns where I go every morning before breakfast, even when it’s dark (I have a light on the side of the summerhouse), usually before the rest of the family are up.  Schooldays are a scrabble, but weekends I have more time, and today on my website http://www.janeupchurch.co.uk/ I am including two winter pieces written on a Sunday. 


A harbour of peace

It rained all day yesterday and now it is soggy, sitting quietly absorbing and feeling the wetness, letting it ooze and lie, and a little get teased out by the shallow sun.  The hawthorn tree is adorned with jewels of raindrops again, like semiluscent pearls.  It is a Sunday morning and you can feel the Sabbath peace calming the air.  I can hear the slow rumble of a distant plane, I am sitting still as planet and time and planes move under me and beyond me.  If you listen to the damp quietness you can hear it drip, you can feel it filling the air. 

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


The patience of winter

Sunday.  How quiet it is here although there are distant rumbles and sirens.  The birds, too, are quiet, I wonder why?  It is 9.30, it is light and the clouds are scudding from and not to the east.  The sky is a filled layer of cloud but you can see the movement by the variation in tone and texture.  There is a brightness in the sky, holding as it does the sun’s absent treasure and here the air is cool and awake, holding the moment, filling the day.

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

I am also including my latest poem published by Word Live, The wisdom of God, a meditation on 1 Corinthians 1 & 2.  How would you describe the wisdom of God?  My favourite sentence in this is ‘it is a wisdom of vulnerability’. 


The wisdom of God

What is
the wisdom of God?

What is
the deep voice of Spirit
that was hidden for us
before time began?

It is not
the wisdom of man
that pleats reason
and finds paths to the sun
that never touch God.

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

Love Jane