Still Listening

Letters on loss, healing, and the mystery of being alive —
from deep in the woods.

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Author: Peter Woods

  • Incarnation is an inside job. Advent 4C

    Allow me a quick recap of the map that we have been following through these weeks of Advent. Week one: the outer chaos of external events such as the destruction of the temple, and their modern day equivalents in multiple contexts around the world lead one to “lift up your eyes for our redemption is…

  • Could we turn this around? Advent 3C

    Luke 3:7-18 John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from…

  • A Stroke of Insight

    In the stillness of the morning the soul eases itself back from the silent world of dreams and begins to allow the programmes of the left brain begin to shape and plan the events of the day. It is a quiet and safe place my right hemisphere world of creative unitary energy. I do not…

  • Preparing the end of Access Control – Advent 2

    Access control is big business. Access control secures environments, assets and information. With the technological revolution, the systems for access control border on being science-fictional, There are card scanners, chip scanners, fingerprint and even iris-of-your-eye scanners to check that only authorized people are given access to the controlled area. Access control however is not something…

  • Consider the whales…

    A week ago I walked along the high water mark as I always do, heading from the West Pier to Kelly’s Beach. The scalloped lines of wave ironed sand make a firmer surface in which to lay out my morning trail of footprints that will be gone with the next wave’s press. Walking along the…

  • A heavy heart or an elevated eye?

    This Sunday begins the waiting season of Advent.  As with all Christian Festivals it makes more sense in the Northern hemisphere where it came into practice.  Here on the tip of Africa the days are getting longer, not shorter as they are up north.  Our fore-parents celebrated the gathering gloom with an act of defiance. …