It’s nearly a year since The Consolations of Writing was born, so I thought it was fitting to call today’s poem “Consolation”, in honour of Simeon, the faithful man who waited and waited to see the consolation of his people and found it unexpectedly in a baby brought to be dedicated one day in theContinue reading “Consolation (For the Presentation of Christ in the Temple)”
Monthly Archives: February 2013
The Lowly and the Proud
Today’s poem was inspired by a passage I have been reading from 1 Samuel this week. We will be looking at this passage in my church this week and, because I am leading the service, I have been reading the passage and thinking about what it means for God to be a God of theContinue reading “The Lowly and the Proud”
The Consolations of Writing 