Tag Archives: Australia

Guest Post from Barbara Messner

Posted on January 12, 2023 by Maren

Before Barbara Messner created her own amazing blog, I used to share her work often. I have not poached there for a long time, but since this feels like she is writing about my life … and since it uses … Continue reading →

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From Autumn to Winter Guest Post by Barbara Messner

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Maren

I was so glad to receive this insightful poem from Barb Messner on her Blog – “Barb, poet priest” and mentioned that I wanted to share it on my blog but at the other end of the calendar’s pages since … Continue reading →

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Prayer for New South Wales

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Maren

God who walks across the water,reach out your handto the people of New South Wales,where the rains continue,roads are flooded,dams broken, rivers swollen,families evacuated from their homes,where the Australian governmentnames sixteen national disaster sites,and rescue workers are at risk. Reach … Continue reading →

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Prayer for Western Australia (Psalm 91:3)

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Maren

For those who dwell in Perthand in the Peel and South west regions,we pray for safetythat God will help themin the snare of the wildfiresand from the pestilence of Covid. We pray for millions under a lockdownto preserve them from … Continue reading →

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Guest Post from Barbara Messner “Entrusted to Make the Best of What We’re Given”

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Maren

Barbara Messner of South Australia speaks to Matthew 25 – the story often called “The Parable of the Talents There are talents we’ve been given here at hand –ingenuity, resources, power enough –to turn back the ticking clocks of climate … Continue reading →

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The Wedding Banquet — Guest Post from Barbara Messner, interpreted in Australia

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Maren

(wherever we live we can experience Matthew 22:1-14 as a call for listening and reconciliation and change in the relationships between indigenous peoples and those descended from colonizers) Can I open my ears now to hearthe good news in this … Continue reading →

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Guest post — poems from Barbara Messner,

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Maren

Barbara Messner, Associate Priest in the Parish of Stirling, South Australia, writes this of her poem for this week … “St. Michael and All Angels is the patronal festival for Bridgewater, hence this week’s poem: it helped me explore something … Continue reading →

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Blessed Among Women — Guest Post from Barbara Messner

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Maren

Barbara Messner offers this poem from her Anglican church in Stirling, South Australia, where they will be celebrating Mary Mother of our Lord this Sunday. Perhaps a good devotion for any of us, any of the time.  Blessed Among Women … Continue reading →

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In the Marketplace, a poem for Matthew 11:16-19 by Barbara Messer (and a bonus)

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Maren

In the marketplace we now have social distancing: we always had soul distancing. In the marketplace Jesus lamented unbridged distance of industrious self-absorption. In the marketplace music dribbles, no-one dances. Mourners crying find no sharing. In the marketplace John who … Continue reading →

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More Value than Many Sparrows? Matthew 10:29-31 — Guest post Stirling, South Australia

Posted on June 20, 2020 by Maren

But why would God count humans of more value than one expiring two a penny sparrow? It’s we who price resources of our earth convinced that human profit has more worth than all the fragile beauties freely given and meant … Continue reading →

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