Greetings everyone. It has been a long time since I did anything on this site. 2020 has been a rubbish year for so many, myself included. Quite apart from Covid (I wasn’t affected thankfully and had my first vaccine recently) I have had to contend with divorce proceedings (completed last October), my mother passing to Paradise, living on a shoestring budget until a couple of months ago, wondering how I would service and MoT my car and so on. Having come through all of this relatively unscathed, I feel that I can now breathe again!
You may be interested to know that I recited my poem “Release” (to be found in the Pastoral Poems section) st my mother’s funeral. Do read it for yourself if you want to.
This brings me on to the main reason for writing. I wrote a new poem yesterday at a Quiet Day (via Zoom, sadly!), influenced by an image of being under water and seeing a man’s hand plunged into the water to pull the submerged person out. The poem is called “Drowning” and will be uploaded soon for you to read and hopefully enjoy. The Quiet Day was co-hosted by Jennifer Rees Larcombe and Carol Bostock, who head up the ministry team at Beauty From Ashes ministry in Hadlow, near Tonbridge in Kent, and in association with the Divine Healing Ministry in Northern Ireland.
I hope you will enjoy the new poem. In the meantime, take care, stay safe and God bless.
Peter.
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