Tag: lament

‘Times are troubled, people grieve’ – A song of lament for today

A collage of screenshots showing people engaged in reflective and worshipful activities: lighting candles at home and in a church, reading or praying at a table, walking barefoot on a beach, standing outdoors with arms raised, tending a fire, walking a garden labyrinth in winter, and quiet domestic scenes with books, icons, and candles. The overall mood is contemplative and spiritual, with varied indoor and outdoor settings.

The Northumbria Community’s video brings together voices, photographs, percussion, film clips, dance, translations and prayers from more than 80 people across their dispersed, worldwide network. The Community has offered it as a gift to be shared widely, ‘for it to bless other people and the world’.

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Take me to the place where your heart hurts most

I’M TAKING a risk in sharing this – it’s perhaps the most personal thing I have ever written here. Last weekend, I spent the evening with two dear friends who have lived with chronic illness for many years, and still find such joy in life having come so close to death. One of them was …

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