Day 2 and 3

                                  
                                                                                           Day 2

 
 

            
A winter-spring walk; February-type sun,
  thigh-high snow on the verges but
    the earth is softening, the fields are heavy with water
       birds sing and lambs bleat their crazy cries.





Interesting, how slowly I have begun to eat. Meals last hours!
At home, surely an irritated partner would flick a tea-towel
                                                      and say, 'do hurry up!'


Day 3

Claire Mulholland's lovely rainbow windows in the Rock Chapel;
a high place with colour and beauty;
Sorrow, harmony, the Holy Spirit, fertility and growth;
imagination, intelligence, warmth and fire.

The Green Window

Listening to birdsong and wind in the trees. Warmth and sunshine today.
Tell me, how is heaven any better than this?
In session today*, we reflect on the idea that 'heaven is not another country...'


*Each day holds a session of up to 45 minutes with a spiritual director, to reflect on the prayer experience of the previous day and be given the set readings for the coming 24 hours.