My feeble body parks motionless, except for the calm contraction and expansion of my lungs, absorbing and expelling a surreptitious element from my body, without which I am unanimated. It is pulled gently into my body, enters the mouth of my nostril, travels through fan-like bronchial channels, into the chambers of my lungs. Tiny cup-likeContinue reading “Breath of God”
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Creation and Christmas
Life circumstances. Life choices. Life’s surprises. Life’s twists and turns. Trigger chaos. Trigger darkness, despair, desperation. Trigger feelings, Feelings of guilt, emptiness, shame, anxiety, embarrassment. Pivot us back to the beginning, the beginning of time. “Now the earth was formless and empty, DARKNESS was over the surface of the deep.” What comes next is mystery!Continue reading “Creation and Christmas”
My Christmas Gift
Three days before Christmas Day, on her 61st birthday, a domestic helper departed home at 5:30 am on public transportation en route to my parents’ house for a day’s work. Like the Israelites losing their way on their Exodus desert journey, she failed to arrive at the agreed time. When contacted by mobile two hoursContinue reading “My Christmas Gift”
Of Church and blessings
THE EDITOR, Madam; Based on the rhetorical response of Bishop Dr Alvin Bailey, reported in the The Daily Gleaner on December 19, to the Catholic Church’s position concerning On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings, it is clear that the bishop did not consult the primary source, as all academic doctors are obliged to do. I use this limitedContinue reading “Of Church and blessings”
We Hunger
We hunger to cuddle and be cuddled. We hunger to gaze upon and to be gazed upon. We hunger to touch and to be touched. We hunger to caress and to be caressed. We hunger to understand and to be understood. We hunger to listen and to be listened to. We hunger to speak andContinue reading “We Hunger”
Hospitality In Action – Lessons for the Church
In the ferocious ebb and flow of the waves of Macqueripe Beach, Trinidad, the spirit of hospitality and welcome was encountered and experienced. Macqueripe Beach is located in Macqueripe Bay on the north-western end of the peninsula of the island of Trinidad at the end of Tucker Valley Road. It’s a small pocket beach frequentedContinue reading “Hospitality In Action – Lessons for the Church”
Real Food
My consciousness awakes slightly before the break of dawn, but my physical body refuses blatantly to rise with it. So, I lay stretched out in bed with a cotton cover sheet trying hopelessly to protect myself from the unruffled wind of an electric standing fan. Lying crookedly flat on my stomach, I feel the pangsContinue reading “Real Food”
Solitude and Prayer
Accompaniment
A Jamaican saying characterises our Caribbean culture: “mout mek fi sey anyting”, meaning that the mouth can easily express words without the attendant action. Pastors readily preach up a storm; parents verbally give strict instructions, sports coaches constantly explain techniques, and politicians use persuasive language. And friends, forever give verbal advice. What is often lacking,Continue reading “Accompaniment”
Narratives
A narrative is a spoken, active, or written account of an individual’s or a group’s experience of life. Narratives are shaped and emerged by: Perspectives, that is, from where they stand, Dominant or controlling voices of power, Assertive, aggressive, and sometimes violent actions of the masses, Oral and written traditions, Quality of leadership, and SilencingContinue reading “Narratives”
