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Category: Spirituality

then as now
Poetry

then as now

Posted on December 10, 2022December 11, 2022 by Sande Ramage

some people may be surprisedto find that I spend a lot of liferummaging around in the pastnot because I long for some nirvanathat was better than now – not at allbut because it seems so like now my bible fascinates…

I didn’t catch your name
Mortality

I didn’t catch your name

Posted on November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 by Sande Ramage

I didn’t catch your namesaid my friend the nurseto the doctor, who hadn’toffered a name or smile feverish, full of infectionnot making sense of muchstill upright, I felt a bother, assumingI wasn’t sick enough to be there hospitals, said Thomas…

On dying alone
Death and Dying

On dying alone

Posted on October 31, 2022November 7, 2022 by Sande Ramage

sick, flat on my backstaring at the ceilingReality wanted a saywondering, raw as alwaysif this was how I would dieno cat, dog, human or fish beside me why should that be a problem? I askednot to me dear, she saidpositively…

A collect came calling
Jungian themes

A collect came calling

Posted on October 16, 2022October 16, 2022 by Sande Ramage

Times change. Dial A Prayer is now a thoroughbred stallion that lives near me, but in the 1960’s it was a machine. A prayer machine that people could phone to hear a daily prayer. This was where my public writing…

3: Balancing truth
Dreams

3: Balancing truth

Posted on October 4, 2022October 8, 2022 by Sande Ramage

Truth matters. By this, I mean the Truth that connects us to Source; that calls us to be in service to something greater than ourselves. The Truth that brings light to darkness enables us to see who we are rather…

2: Trusting dreams
Adoption

2: Trusting dreams

Posted on October 4, 2022October 8, 2022 by Sande Ramage

Trying to write about trusting my dreams reminded of the book, Like Catching Water in a Net. Val Webb, Australian theologian, and author, points out that the search for the Real is no simple matter. ‘The more we succeed in…

1: Waking up to dreaming
Dreams

1: Waking up to dreaming

Posted on October 4, 2022October 8, 2022 by Sande Ramage

At 21 years old, on a sunny December day in Auckland, I was facing one of the biggest challenges of my life. Dad had rung to tell me that Mum had just a few months to live. She could come…

Belief: a delicate balancing act
Festivals

Belief: a delicate balancing act

Posted on June 3, 2022June 4, 2022 by Sande Ramage

‘I just want to believe’, she said. The group went quiet. ‘Believe what’, I asked. ‘That the organisation will live up to its values’. There it was laid bare. The human desire for organisations to fix the world. To be…

Ukraine, Russia and the tension of opposites
Church

Ukraine, Russia and the tension of opposites

Posted on April 25, 2022April 28, 2022 by Sande Ramage

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was hot news as I wandered into my favourite bookstore. Colleagues were offering opinions about President Putin’s actions, but other than thinking war is futile my understanding of the situation was limited. However, I was interested…

Funerals and our shared mortality
Death and Dying

Funerals and our shared mortality

Posted on January 24, 2022April 25, 2022 by Sande Ramage

The funeral had been everything hoped for, and more. The person honoured; hospitality shown. Words and music flowed. The one technical hitch wasn’t worth worrying about. But I felt done in. Ready to drop them from my repertoire. After 20…

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  • Spirituality is about the experience, at the core of one’s being, of truth, power, and desire. It is the energy within persons that shape a person’s actions and ultimately a person’s life into a meaningful whole. Galilee Retreat Centre, Ottawa, 2016
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