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Wednesday 6 March 2024

Thanksgiving for Air.

If a group of people are asked what they would like to give thanks for, answers usually focus around people who are special to the person who answers, often ‘family’, or beauty or a special place that has felt awesome. Todays post takes a different line in giving thanksgiving for air. It is two very simple verses that are written to teach a little about air too. Did you know, for example, that air is kept on the planet by gravity? Maybe that will be learning point for your group. Similarly, the composition of air might surprise some. There is also the important point that we, and all other plants and creatures share the air - and it’s free to all.



Pixabay free image - lungs and people

Thanksgiving for Air.

Why not make it an every day prayer

to give thanks for the layer of air,

that’s by gravity held,

to the crust of the world

for all land-bound lifeforms to share?

 

Mainly nitrogen, that might surprise!

Far less O2, lets mortals survive

with all of the other

flora and fauna.

So, breathe it! Give thanks! You're alive!

 

Composition of air. There are numerous websites that explain with different degrees of detail, what gases are in the air we breathe. BBC bitesize says:

'About 78% of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas, N2, which is unreactive and just sort of hangs around.

About 21% is oxygen, O2, and that’s the stuff we need to breathe in.

That leaves approximately 1%, which is made up of atoms of unreactive argon, and molecules of carbon dioxide.

If you enjoyed this, you might like to visit 

Wellness, Mindfulness, Relaxation, Meditation and BREATHING

 

 

Tuesday 20 February 2024

Put on Headphones and Turn off the Sound,


 


This is awesome, relaxing, profound,

Put on headphones and turn off the sound,

Breathe in deep, counting five,

Breathe out: Hear: you’re alive!

Thanks to breathable air all around.

 

Repeat this a number of times

It may help you feel tranquil, sublime.

Think about yesterday,

Did you walk peaceful ways?

Now today, aim to stay calm and kind.


Think about this in more depth HERE (Put on Quietened Headphones)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

Put on Quietened Headphones.

This is a companion poem to the post on this blog of 04.01.24 entitled Wellness, Mindfulness, Relaxation or Meditation. It explores in verse the nature of the silent headphones and our experience of our own intensified breathing sound.

 


Put on quietened headphones to hear your own breathing,

drawing in air and then pouring it out.

in those profound moments your headphones can offer

stillness to ponder what life is about.

 

Reflect for some minutes on air and your breathing:

all of Earth’s creatures take similar air

of nitrogen, oxygen^ mixed with small traces

of other gases, globally shared.

 

And where does the air that we breathe every moment

come from and go to? It’s borne on the wind:

in wild adverse weather it travels great distance

on calm days its movement is naturally trimmed.

 

So celebrate air and its movements as wonders,

nurturing life on our planet benign.

Let‘s daily be thankful for these on life’s journey:

gifts to us all in creation’s design.

 

And having said thanks for continued existence,

return to the deep sounds of taking each breath

and ponder the mystery of life you’ve been given

in your wondrous journey between birth and death.

 

Conclusion 1*

Before you take leave of the sonorous rhythm

resolve that you’ll always be grateful for air?

and for the way it envelops our planet

held fast by gravity everywhere.

 

OR 

Conclusion 2*

But mystery and silence might draw you much further,

from day-by-day rhythms to unbounded time,

from out of your depths a surprising up-welling

a longing to enter the presence divine. 


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*The poem deliberately has two possible endings. If, for you, this poem with its associated breathing exercise is woven into a bodily well-being programme, then you will probably be more comfortable with Conclusion 1.

For some, however, the exercise might be part of a prayer/spiritual practice. In this case, Conclusion 2 might be the more helpful reading.


In either case, you might like to follow the link immediately below which leads to a celebration of our five senses


LINK: https://crossandcosmos.blogspot.com/2016/04/for-amazement-by-beauty-celebration-of.html


^Note: Air comprises 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon,

 0.04% carbon dioxide, 0.5% water vapour.  

 

The 4th January posting on Mindfulness, Wellness. referred to in the opening sentence above, can be found HERE


Footnote: If you’re fortunate enough to have a quietened room, you can experience a degree of this effect by cupping your hands round your ears - but that inevitably will leave you less relaxed. If you haven’t any such space, an open church might provide the quiet and a pew or seat in front of you that would enable you to rest your arms and take a more relaxed posture.

 

Thursday 25 January 2024

COMPASS PRAYERS: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (and other times)

At the end of the Week for Christian Unity, Here’s an All-Age prayer format that worked well for us (Country parish church at edge of Cambridge) last weekend but could be used at any time to remind a local fellowship of the reach of our faith.

Image credit: Pixabay free images

COMPASS PRAYERS

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Simple Prayer exploration requiring minimal preparation. Ability to offer extempore prayer by leader or a delegate is necessary. Prayers involve whole congregation / fellowship 

 

·      Invite children into the main aisle of the church/ chapel. Explain they are there so everyone can see what is happening.

·      Get the children to turn, face and point to the main compass sides to the building. If your church/ chapel has a traditional orientation, the altar/sanctuary  will be in the East.

·      Then ask the whole congregation to nominate churches or chapels which they would like to pray for.

·      Work out with the help of the congregation where the nominated place of worship will be in terms of direction and get all the children to point in that direction.

·      Then offer simple prayer  for that fellowship/ congregation and move to the next suggestion. Sometimes the person suggesting a place will indicate why they would like somewhere prayed for. When we used this, we very quickly had ‘Where we had our last holiday’ and ‘Where we got married’, so the prayers become quite personal and may give rise to conversation after the service.

·      Be careful to limit the number of prayers so you do not lose momentum: we found in a small congregation an enthusiasm to participate by the grown ups that could have easily have prolonged the prayer-time well beyond the normal prayer length - and the younger people’s boredom threshold!

If, of course, anyone wants to pray for a church in Australia it would be fun to have the children all pointing in different directions!

Saturday 13 January 2024

Deep In My Brian


                                             Life Forces (CGI by the author)

I was intrigued to read recently (New Scientist) that when Neurons fire in the brain they usually spark activity of other neurons in wholly different parts of the brain, so it is difficult to track how ideas come together from disparate parts of our amazing brains. I was engaged in thinking about the overwhelming immensity of the Universe (!) and realised just how diverse the ideas were that I was drawing on - and this brief rhyme came together just a bit unexpectedly. So you’ll find links in to other reflections on the marvel of our brains’ working and hope you might be inspired to give thanks for your own brains. The first link is a thanksgiving poem/ song.


Deep In My Brain.

Deep in my brain.

many neurons are firing,

some of them orderly, 

some of them wild:

some bear the hallmarks

of years of experience,

some arouse yearnings

to act like a child!


To consider the nature of our brains in a longer poem/ song, go to Give Thanks to God for Human Brains.


There is also a children’s song that you can access from here, it is called Our Amazing Brains

Thursday 4 January 2024

Wellness, Mindfulness, Relaxation, Meditation and BREATHING


If your 
wellness, mindfulness,
relaxation or meditation
routine has a 
BREATHING
element, try this:
it could be as transformational for you as it has been for me!

Many wellness, mindfulness, relaxation and meditation routines encourage breathing in a measured way, to help you become aware of the extent that your breathing is critical to your health and welfare and to help towards achieving a sense of inner calm. 

Some programmes will also invite you to be especially aware of the air you breathe, and to be thankful for its life-giving nature. 

Go to your programme and follow it in the usual way but put headphones on and just listen to the way they intensify the sound of your breathing. 

Be even more amazed at the wonder of it all - and give thanks.

Back story.
Over many years, I have tried to have a quiet time in the early morning whilst the likelihood of being interrupted is minimal. Within those times, although mainly given over to journalling after a brief time of listening music I find lifts me, I have on several occasions explored how a time of silence can enrich such times by allowing my mind to be receptive to fruitful inspiration. From time to time, I have used guidelines by others focused on achieving spiritual connectedness and/ or inner calm. 

Being an activist, I have seldom found the enthusiasm to continue such explorations over meaningful periods of weeks, or even days and I have often stumbled at suggestions of becoming aware of my own breathing. Those endeavours have tended to fall apart with my impatience to 'get on to the next thing’. 

Yes! I can give some attention to my breathing, its significance for my continuing existence and the wonders of the function of the air surrounding me: but never for long.

Then, a short while ago, I had listened to some songs I love and which hold special meaning for me, and moved into a time in which I hoped to ‘go deeper’. By accident, I left my earphones on and at once heard my breathing rhythm in a wholly different way. I could hear my lungs being filled with air, I could explore the sound of a deep breath or of more rapid breathing. I could keep my breathing quite shallow and sense the effect of the difference, all intensified within the silence of my inactive headphones.

For me, that has been an amazingly different experience. Calm comes more readily and I am more easily moved when I do this to thanksgiving for the mix of gases that I breathe in and out and the way they nourish me.

Why not give it a try? It may work for you as it does for me. Then be thankful both for this idea and for the framework of whatever programme that brought you here.

AND

If you are minded to give thanks for these wonders of our living experience, you might like to reflect on where your thanks is directed and to think of the wider miracle of the ways our bodies function by looking at the poem/song ‘Give Thanks to God for Human brains’. This gives thanks not only for our brains but for ALL our senses as well. If you like the sound of that, then CLICK HERE


Image credits: 2 Pixabay free images merged by the author




 

Monday 1 January 2024

An Angel Tree (2) A Community project Creation, Creativity and The Crib


Our Angel Tree, Manger scene
 and NASA cosmic image.

An Angel Tree (2)

A Community project - Creation, Creativity and The Crib

There is something very special about one idea inspiring another, especially when the further idea has the potential to engage others and to illustrate a precious part of the Christmas story!

 

Just before Christmas 2023, I posted a poem with the title O Christmas Tree with Angel Throng: it was inspired by a collection of 70 angel ornaments, which we had made over several years and which now decorated, in entirety, our beautiful tree (other than a set of LED lights and a star at its top). In writing a short introduction to the poem, I suggested there might be a possibility that trees in churches or chapels could follow this concept, thus according the tree a more significant place in the Christmas narrative. As I wrote, I recognised that the accumulation of a sufficient number of angels to completely decorate the rather larger trees in most churches could be expensive…

 

But then … such a simple idea emerged: the tree could become a community project for Advent.

 

Here’s how it might work - although every Angel Tree will have its own unique demands!

·      # Several weeks before the start of Advent, make it as widely known as possible that the Church/Chapel Christmas tree will be populated with as many hand-made angels as the community can produce. If you call up Angel and craftworks on the web, all manner of hand-crafted angel ideas will be found, among them being knitted, crocheted, macrame, paper-plate, coffee filters, fret-worked, scroll-sawn, cross stitch, glass-painted, paper strip, felted, fan-folded and many, many more. 

·      # Issue invitations to participate. Make the deadline for receiving angels around mid November, so you have plenty of time to assess how many angels your tree will need to hold. Angels will need to have the name of the maker on them – discreetly of course!

·      # Then, on each Sunday in Advent put around a quarter of the angels you have received on the tree. Let the crafters know when their angel will be put on to the tree and that they would be particularly welcome to that service.

ø OR # incorporate unveiling the Angel throng into an already established Crib Service thus potentially broadening the age range of the participating congregation/ fellowship members.

·   # If you have a writer in your community, ask s/he to devise a prayer for each week.

·   # Have your Christmas Angel Tree near your nativity scene: thus the tree will be filled with ‘hovering’ angels incorporating the tree into the manger story – and invite all the crafters to whichever service the crib is blessed. In this way you will be linking Creation (The tree), Creativity (the crafters) and the Crib (Incarnation and Salvation).

·   # Offer simple seasonal hospitality after each dedication service so crafters can get to know each other  and encourage them to talk about their particular craft-work to others.


You may like to read the Angel tree poem which you can find by clicking HERE 

May your Angel Trees be witnesses of the fellowship that can be engendered through the crafts-people and the Christmas story in your community.

 

 

Tuesday 19 December 2023

O Christmas Tree, with Angel Throng


After several years collecting, we now have a sufficient ‘throng’ of angels to completely decorate a sizeable tree with only angels and a string of LED lights. Both Pam and I were delighted with the appearance of the tree, and we felt that our tree thus celebrated a particularly wonderful part of the Christmas story. Such delight felt to merit a poem which follows. I struggled with the wording of the third verse for some time but then realised that by using the concept of the branches pointing us to the battlefields of the world, the beautiful conical form of the tree did quite literally point all over the world beyond our home and with more than 30 wars going on, many in places we could not readily identify, the idea had an unexpected relevance. I hope the wording might prompt you to follow the suggestions of the last verse. (And maybe some of you might consider the notion of an Angel tree: to have such a display in a church or chapel would fuse the yuletide celebrations with the incarnation’s pronouncement by angels)


O Christmas Tree, with Angel Throng                          

O Christmas tree with angel throng

remind us of that awesome night                              

when hardened hillside shepherds quailed                                       

beneath the skies, ablaze with light.                          

 

O tree, your lights like stars that flecked                    

the dark cold skies upon the hills,                              

stir up fresh hope, the angel song                              

might be Earth’s future - ‘Peace for all’.                                 

 

O tree, whose branches quietly grew             

taking their shape so gracefully                                              

point us to all war-wearied folk                          

longing for such harmony.                                          

 

Come then, and pray, ‘Convict their leaders,                          

that repugnant warring claims                                               

bring nobody joy nor gladness’.                                  

Only peace can meet those aims. 


This poem is also a part of the Advent, Christmas and Epiphany collection on The Cross and Cosmos. You will find the collection HERE  


When Christmas is over, at the start of the New Year there will be a further post with an idea of how an ANGEL TREE could add a new dimension to Christmas church life/ Christmas services.                                                          

Tuesday 5 December 2023

 

                                                    The Climate Concern tree 

at Landbeach Church Christmas Tree Festival 

(Near Cambridge UK)


With a large number of Christmas Tree Festivals in the UK and many other places here’s an idea that uses CLIMERICKS as a way of starting Climate Concern conversations. 

With the encouragement of a friend to make a display in a 40-ChristmasTree festival, I worked out that it might be possible to decorate a recycled cardboard tree with CLIMERICKS, suitably designed for the season. You can see the outcome above. The cards are straightforward insofar as they are A6 in  size so can be printed out 4 to a page on light card or fairly heavy paper. There are several websites that offer free borders and each card can feature either one of the growing collection of verses on this site: OR, better, this is an opportunity for you and/ or some members of an organisation who want to express their support for much greater impetus in climate change mitigation initiatives CAN PERHAPS WRITE THEIR OWN.

Here’s a specimen sheet using four of the CLIMERICKS already on the site, which have some relevance to Christmas in the 21st century.

 

Insert the CLIMERICKS you think most appealing to the people who will see them. Cut the card and mount the individual cards on the tree. In the ‘tree’ picture above the cards are stuck on but could be hung on a real Christmas tree OR on a single branch such as that shown below either for Christmas or for other seasons.
This would also be a very straightforward project for SCHOOLS once pupils are old enough to be able to produce CLIMERICKS. Displayed at an end of term concert, the tree, with its CLIMERICK decoration could provide parents with understandings of how their children perceive the present-day climate threat. Interesting family conversations and student to student exchanges could emerge.

If this idea commends itself to you, but you do not find it easy to write verse, the index button A - Z of CLIMERICKS will give you access to a growing collection of usable verses and if you want to understand more about other uses of CLIMERICKS, 
CLICK  HERE 

Friday 1 December 2023

In Dark, Dark skies.


Wonderful picture of Northern Lights 
and a myriad of stars
(From Pixabay)


In Dark, Dark skies. 

 

In dark, dark skies

behold five thousand stars:

and planets moving 

in their wandering paths.

 

Five thousand orbs

are all my eyes can see,

of many trillions

in the starry sea.

 

When darkness yields 

this glory to the light,

fresh wonder floods into

our waking sight

 

And from our star

stream light and energy

which bless our planet and us,

most generously.

 

And Saviour when,

our lives come near their end,

if we’re in darkness

light of heaven send 

 

But if earth should

erupt in dark and fear;

Lord, midst such terror 

bid that same light appear.

 

.

Tuesday 14 November 2023

Our Stewardship of The Planet: Our Nurturing Earth

It is easy to feel impotent when it comes to questions of our stewardship of Earth and its resources but you will not need to dig very deep into Climate change/ Climate chaos advice to see that many of the advocates for taking action say that one of the most effective ways which everyone engaged with the issue CAN do, is' keep the conversation going’. But that is not always easy.

So here’s an idea. whenever and wherever you are going to eat a Christmas meal, consider whether you are prepared to put this table-mat on every diner’s place.



If you are, you can find a version HERE  which will enable you to print A4 versions: then maybe, just maybe, the conversation will be be such that others will be moved to put pressure on parliamentarians and other national leaders to support ways of mitigating the present climate chaos. If a conversation does have that effect, you will indeed be making ‘A Gift that will last Earth for years'.

The verse on the mat is a CLIMERICK (CLimate Concern LiMERICK), an idea which is being developed on Eco-Verses, a companion blog to this one. You can find the purpose of CLIMERICKs by clicking HERE

Monday 6 November 2023

Designing Armaments. Abhorrent!








Free image from Pixabay bomb collection

Woman and child - Finis.

Designing Armaments. Abhorrent!

Designing armaments.

Abhorrent!

 

Manufacturing weaponry.

Repugnant!

 

Arms trading.

Despicable!

 

Sending young people to battle-front annihilation.

Sickening!

 

Killing children, parents, the aged indiscriminately,

Reprehensibly Murderous!

 

Desecrating and destroying childhood.

Unforgiveable!

 

Demolishing hospitals homes, and refuges,

Abominable!

 

All Shameful! Shameful! Shameful!

 

And among the most shameful.

those who make blood-money

out of such misery and destruction.


More on the same theme at Heap Shame

Tuesday 31 October 2023

Heap Shame on Manufacturers of Arms!


This free Pixabay image could be a child 
in so many theatres of war, 
no doubt terrified, 
grieving family or friends 
and desperate for his own life. 
This sonnet is 
to pour acrimony on the execrable trade
which makes such devastation possible.

Heap shame on manufacturers of arms,
whose shareholders profit from spleen, 
from scarred children, caught in between
mayhem and death wrought by sadist tsars.
Stir up those yearning for peace and calm
to brand this production obscene;
to find ways of curbing their resource streams, 
preventing them from fuelling the harms   

that accrue from the cesspools of foulness and hate,
and swamp the world with the bane
of the terrible trade we label ‘defence’; 
which further disgusts, by promoting vile rape  
in the wake of its products of shame.
Does God weep at such corporate offence?

Wildfires: Evidence of Climate Chaos

Wildfires: Evidence of Climate Chaos
Wildfires: Evidence of Climate Chaos

Cascade of Stars and Gas (Imagined image: CGI)

Cascade of Stars and Gas (Imagined image: CGI)
Cascade of Stars and Gases. This image will take you to the meditation 'Deep Silence'

Butterfly Nebula (CGI)

Butterfly Nebula (CGI)
The Imaginary Butterfly Nebula . Anything like this would be a real Curiosity! The image will link you to the reflection titled 'Curiosity' which is actually a celebration of the achievement of landing the Mars Rover of that name

Ten thousand billion suns - A scintilla of God’s Universe

Ten thousand billion suns - A scintilla of God’s Universe
It is currently thought that the Universe has at least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars! Hence the use of the word ‘scintilla’ for a mere ten thousand billion.

Cross and Particle Accelerator (CGI)

Cross and Particle Accelerator (CGI)
Cross and Particle Accelerator. The words of 'A Prayer for Understanding' can be viewed by clicking on this image

Nebula (Embroidery)

Nebula (Embroidery)
Nebula (Embroidery) to accompany the poem 'Invitation' which can be found by clicking on the image.

Nativity Star (CGI)

Nativity Star (CGI)
Nativity Star: This image will link you to the collection of new Carols on this site. Also, the image can easily be copied onto an overhead acetate and used as a window decoration. Easy for children to achieve. Note the cross at the centre of the star.

Orange Galaxy

Orange Galaxy
'Orange Galaxy' posted to accompany 'Bounded and Boundless'. Go to the poem by clicking on the image.

Cosmic Ikon 8 Moth

Cosmic Ikon 8 Moth
Cosmic Ikon 8: Moth Nebula(imagined-acrylic) The Gold field of deep space is intended to convey the Lordship of Christ over the whole of the Cosmos

Surprise garden rose (Photo)

Surprise garden rose (Photo)
This beautiful head of roses in our garden, which are giving off a delightful perfume in the morning sun, seems a fitting picture to link to the sonnet 'Evolution and Beauty'. Let the picture take you there. It is a surprise because it is growing high on a bush of otherwise pure yellow roses: amazing!

Cross and Vortex

Cross and Vortex
'Cross and Vortex' to accompany 'Stars and Planets Sing Your Glory'. Click on the image to go to the poem/hymn.

Gaseous Cosmic Threads (Mixed media)

Gaseous Cosmic Threads (Mixed media)
Gaseous Cosmic Threads: Mixed media - acrylics and painted threads

St Francis’ Sky (Photo)

St Francis’ Sky (Photo)
Warm Umbrian Hills: Click image to take you to the poem St Francis' Sky

Cosmic Icon 7 Summerflower

Cosmic Icon 7 Summerflower
Cosmic Icon 7 - Summerflower Nebula (Acrylic)

Cosmic Labyrinth (CGI)

Cosmic Labyrinth (CGI)
'Cosmic Labyrinth' - This icon is a symbol of the path through the near reaches of the Cosmos with its 'Havens' where current advances in science (2012/13) are celebrated. By clicking on the picture you will be taken to the latest version of the poem of the same name.

Cross of Autumn Leaves (cropped Photo)

Cross of Autumn Leaves (cropped Photo)
Time, perhaps to consider a restorative break before the approach of Advent/ Christmas. Let this image take you to 'On Drawing Apart'.

IONA: The Marble Quarry (Photo)

IONA: The Marble Quarry (Photo)
On the South shore of Iona is a bay which shows the industrial scarring of a beautiful place. Read of it by clicking on the picture

Celtic cross candle (Photo)

Celtic cross candle (Photo)
Celtic Cross and candle' linked to the poem 'Awesome, Wonderful Creator'. Go to the poem by clicking on the image.

Light of the World amidst stars (CGI)

Light of the World amidst stars (CGI)
'Light of the world' posted to accompany 'To Light'. Find the poem by clicking on the image.

Iona from Fionnphort (Watercolour)

Iona from Fionnphort (Watercolour)
Iona from Fionnphort. At this point of the Isle of Mull, the end of a pilgrimage or trip to Iona is in sight. Click on this picture to take you to the poem 'IONA - The Pilgrim Way'

My Mesh Mask for Radiotherapy

My Mesh Mask for Radiotherapy
This is the mask which was moulded to my face to ensure the radiotherapy I had in April 2017 was precisely targeted. You can read more by clicking on the image

Double Celebration

Double Celebration
Pam, who has been magnificent in caring for me since my Cancer diagnosis in October and I celebrate the end of Radiotherapy and our 36th Wedding Anniversary (Note the return of some hair!). Click on the image to read about the treatment - and waiting.

St Neots Sunset (Photo)

St Neots Sunset (Photo)
Surrounded by beauty: Whie 'Evolution and Beauty' became one of the most viewed poems on this blog, Pam, my wife took this gorgeous picture of a sunset over the flatlands of Cambridgeshire UK. Click on it to go to the poem

Gabriel - written/painted by Pam, my wife in 2015

Gabriel - written/painted by Pam, my wife in 2015
Gabriel began the Christmas story with his visit to Mary. The story is told in our Christmas collection in the Carol, Go to Nazareth My Great Messenger. Click on this image to take you there.

Maple Leaf Nebula (CGI)

Maple Leaf Nebula (CGI)
IMAGINARY IMAGE TO CELEBRATE CANADA DAY: Click on this his imaginary 'Maple Leaf Nebula' to take you to a poem entitled 'Nebula' (image not to be confused with NGC 2024, the Flame Nebula which is also known as the Maple Leaf)

Beauty in the Garden - June 2016

Beauty in the Garden - June 2016
Beauty in the Garden - June 2016

Aurora Imagined over Iona (Watercolour & pastel)

Aurora Imagined over Iona (Watercolour & pastel)
First posted here on Adomnan’s day (23rd September) 2015. An imagined natural phenomenom that could be seen to resonate mystically with the idea of Iona being a ‘thin place’ where heaven brushes earth.

Assisi Sunset

Assisi Sunset
Assisi Sunset

Thinking about the Brain

Thinking about the Brain
This image is formed from a small section of neural pathways posted by the Koch Institute, clipped, part inverted and stitched together. It is intended to impart a sense of our extensive, but still partial understanding of what goes on in that awesome part of our bodies, our brains. By clicking on the image, you will be taken to a celebratory poem/song ‘For Amazement by Beauty’ about all of our senses.

Source (CGI by Trevor Thorn)

Source (CGI by Trevor Thorn)
Source: Expand the image to reveal its heart

Rainbow spiral (CGI)

Rainbow spiral (CGI)
'Rainbow Spiral' to accompany 'Darkness,Illuminator' . Find the poem by clicking on the iImagined mage

Cross and simple Prayer rope (Photo)

Cross and simple Prayer rope (Photo)
Cross and simple prayer rope: make one like this to use as an aid to using ‘The Jesus Prayer'