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the rocky bank of a river

We are water: a meditation

July 5, 2021

For the ones who need to stay awake

June 28, 2021

ambivalence

Blessings and prayers / Meditations

Ambivalence: a reflection

January 16, 2021

the prayer i needed to pray

Blessings and prayers / Meditations

The prayer I needed to pray

November 28, 2020

Monday morning prayer

Blessings and prayers / Meditations

This week’s Monday morning prayer

November 2, 2020

field maple leaves in late afternoon light. A Monday morning prayer

Blessings and prayers / Meditations

A Monday morning prayer

October 26, 2020

autumn leaves in a puddle

Meditations / Poetry

If the trees can let every one of their leaves fall

October 14, 2020

Meditations / Poetry

Do not fear your softness

October 7, 2020

Blessings and prayers / Meditations

A Monday prayer

September 14, 2020

yellow gorse

Blessings and prayers / Meditations / Poetry

A blessing for abundance

July 1, 2020

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A very rainy September day in London is about the

A very rainy September day in London is about the perfect time to reminisce about H & C’s joyful, music-full, midsummer night’s dream of a wedding.

Officiating weddings and commitment ceremonies is the most delicious honour. I love working with two people and their loved ones to co-create a ceremony that really reflects who they are and the kind of partnership they have and want to affirm for the future.

If you’re looking to tie the knot (or jump the besom! Or fasten the hand!) and are looking for an inclusive officiant who will be with you every step of the way, please get in touch. Now booking for 2025 🥰

#celebrant #weddingcelebrant #commitmentceremony #yourweddingyourway #interfaith #inclusiveweddings #sacredceremony

It was my third year at @greenbeltfestival this ye

It was my third year at @greenbeltfestival this year. ⛺️

As the (free!) shuttle bus pulled into the site on the first day, tears came to my eyes as I returned to a place that has become a spiritual home.

Each year, the group I go to Greenbelt with grows as newcomers join us and get folded joyfully into our fellowship.

Many of us are in our own personal search for a place to belong - often on the other side of the grief and loneliness of feeling we had to leave the faith community we once called home.

Highlights this year included @flamygrant, @bobbyvylan, the annual queer glitter ball, Crazy Goat cider in the sunshine and, as always, my groups’ morning porridge ritual.

I even asked my friends to participate in a little ritual to bless my interfaith ministry in the year to come. On the grass that had just been hallowed by the annual festival-wide Sunday Communion, we built and practiced our own sacred, interfaith ritual.

See you next year Greenbelt 💚

#greenbeltfestival #deconstructingfaith #interfaithministry #interspiritual #spiritualjourney #aplacetobelong

Just like the leaves of my namesake tree, I’m ge

Just like the leaves of my namesake tree, I’m getting softer as I age. 🥰

#woodlandwalk #hollytree #holly #woodland #woodlandwalk #latesummer #naturemedicine #slowsaturday #interfaith #interfaithminister #interfaithministry #todaysministry

Is that what my hair looks like from the top when

Is that what my hair looks like from the top when it’s in a top knot? 🫣

If you could do with a little space to breathe and be, come along to The Heart Space tomorrow evening. Meditation, journalling, music, poetry and more.

Open to all and offered for free by an ordained interfaith minister.

Link in b10. ♥️

#august #meditationpractice #mindfulness #mindfulmoments #spiritualpractice #spiritualpractices #journalling #journallingpractice #breathe #communitycircle #gathertogether #interfaith #interfaithminister #witchythings

The spiritual rot that has come to the surface in

The spiritual rot that has come to the surface in the UK in recent days is not new, nor is it over.

It didn’t start with the heartbreaking tragedy in Southport and the sickening disinformation that was used to manipulate it. And there is so much more to do.

Rather than seeking to distance ourselves from the horrors of white supremacy, as white people we have to continue to go towards it, face it, acknowledge our complicity, divest our lives and our imaginations from colonial frames.

This is lifelong, spiritual work.

To sit once again at the foot of the great bell hooks, “Living in touch with divine spirit lets us see the light of love in all living beings. That light is a resurrecting force. A culture that is dead to life can only be resurrected by spiritual awakening.”

#standuptoracism #noislamophobia #antifascism #antiracism #notoantisemitism #blacklivesmatter #interfaith #interfaithdialogue #refugeeswelcome

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