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Comment on All my fountains are in You by a friend

a friend — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:25:02 +0000

Hi Just spotted your blog as I was deleting about a hundred accumulated e-mails. Nice photos. Will look out for your blogs again. Prayers for you always

Comment on A Night Sky Poem by darknightswhitesoul

darknightswhitesoul — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:52:21 +0000

Thanks Alan, for your comment. They are beautiful aren’t they. Rites of Passage the album where I first heard this poem spoken is a good album too.

Comment on Kneeling to wash human feet – Maunday Thursday by Maunday thursady | ChristianWarner

Maunday thursady | ChristianWarner — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:37:47 +0000

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Comment on A Night Sky Poem by Alan Truman

Alan Truman — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:11:02 +0000

I heard Paul read these words tonight in Retford. They are beautiful.
Thank you for a wonderful evening.

Comment on Spiritual Temperaments: Contemplative (8of9) by darknightswhitesoul

darknightswhitesoul — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:51:53 +0000

Hi Midaly,

Thanks for your comment and encouragement. You’re very welcome. I haven’t written a lot recently and never finished writing posts on the final two temperaments – the intellectual and the activist. Hopefully I will get chance to write them soon. I’m glad you are enjoying Gary Thomas’s book Sacred Pathways. I found it gave me mental pictures to make sense of the many seemingly contradictory experiences I had of God in different ways and places. The Sacred Pathways helped me to also see anew that certain experiences of my life which I hadn’t perceived as being Christian or Spiritual were actually times of grace and encounter with God through culture and nature. it was a real blessing to learn and know this. Thanks again for your positive comments. David

Comment on Spiritual Temperaments: Contemplative (8of9) by Midaly

Midaly — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:49:52 +0000

Thanks for these articles about spiritual temperaments. I reading the book of Sacred Pathways. It’s a refreshing experience with the Lord. What you write about the sensate spiritual temperament?

Comment on Sunlight through a kitchen window… by darknightswhitesoul

darknightswhitesoul — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:22:04 +0000

Hi Annie, thanks for your feedback on this post. It’s really enouraging to read that you have found helpful these reflections on how for me simple moments of ‘ordinary’ life have opened up glimpses of the numinous. One or two other readers have told me verbally that they have also appreciated this post. I haven’t had chance to write much recently, but I am often thinking about the interface between physicality and spirituality. Where do they begin and end, if at all? Is our modern distinction between matter and essence a brutish oversimplification of the way they Universe appears to ‘be’ and have been formed? Ancient peoples lived in a much greater awareness of the dynamic relationship between the physical and the spiritual – although perhaps it was naively concieved compared to the wonders we now are aware of through modern science. Yet, science since the 21st Century’s advances in relativity and ‘new science’, as well as cultural studies since postmodern philosophy seem to point to a growing insight into the awe, mystery, interdependence and ‘play’ within the Universe. I am fascinated and humbled by this. I find the thoughts and writings of German philosopher Martin Heidegger really helpful in making me aware of how I might percieve or fail to percieve the wonder of the material world I live in as a 21st Century global citizen. Thanks again for your kind remarks and especially your comparisons with Vermeer – I hadn’t even made that connection at all! Although, I think I know the paintings you refer to and will look them up again. Please feel free to advance any further thoughts of your own. Hope the numinous reveals to you the extraordinary in the apparently commonplace in coming weeks – even sunlit washing up in the kitchen sink! David

Comment on Sunlight through a kitchen window… by ann clark

ann clark — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:48:16 +0000

Hi David, this is a really beautiful post, your words ring true. The light through your kitchen window also brings one of my favourite painters, Vermeer, to mind, with his light flooded windows and people employed in humble everyday tasks. I think when he painted his particles of light he was touching something sublime, making the same thing accessible to anyone who sees his paintings. You’ve pinpointed something like it here with your paradox of finding an epiphany in something as ‘unspiritual’ as mere matter. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts – I’m going to go and gaze at the washing up now. Annie

Comment on Greenbelt Festival – August Bank Holiday Weekend, 2010 by darknightswhitesoul

darknightswhitesoul — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:41:15 +0000

Thanks Simon, great to catch up with you too! Thanks also for your comment and feedback on my post. Hope your new work is going well.
David

Comment on Greenbelt Festival – August Bank Holiday Weekend, 2010 by Simon

Simon — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:25:52 +0000

Great to see you at GB. Lovely review, and really well written. Thanks.