Daily Reflections for week beginning 21st April

DAILY REFLECTION - 2025

Monday 28th April

Yesterday during the family communion service, Min Wild shared a beautiful poem as the basis of our prayers. The theme of the service was how Christ is made known through the senses, and hospitality, as much as our conceptual understanding. This poem evokes just that theme, how the senses can draw us into the present moment and to encounter the holy, not just know about the holy:

Snow

By Louis MacNeice

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was

Spawning snow and pink roses against it

Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:

World is suddener than we fancy it.

World is crazier and more of it than we think,

Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion

A tangerine and spit the pips and feel

The drunkenness of things being various.

And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world

Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes—

On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands—

There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.

Revd Louise Grace

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