Category Archives: Spirituality

Between the cracks

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I wandered out into the early morning garden, clad in sandals and dressing gown, in search of The Ball. The dog had hidden the darned thing again and stood at the door grinning, while I did what I was expected … Continue reading →

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A matter of choice…

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I never did like doing as I was told. I might, through necessity, for example, obey the authoritarian order of an autocratic boss, but orders would never inspire me to give of my best. I would do just enough to … Continue reading →

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…A Month of Sundays: Lady’s Lamp.

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 * … Florence Nightingale’s spiritual life was graced by contact with the last of the Esoteric Medical Orders. The Sisters of Charity, was a religious order founded by St Vincent de Paul in 1634. Such orders had … Continue reading →

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Given… Stuart France

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* If we ever had any doubts about what it is we do, then the circumstances of our ‘flying visit’ to Skipton was lying in wait to dispel them. ‘Hell, we weren’t even supposed to be going to Skipton!’ Over … Continue reading →

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Riddles of the Night: Clues on cue

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Sue Vincent

In December 2017, Stuart and I ran one of the Silent Eye’s regular workshops, this time in Derbyshire. As our workshops are currently on hold because of the pandemic, and as the story of the workshop was originally published in … Continue reading →

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The way home

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Sue Vincent

From the archives: We had set off for Dorset the day before… way back in 2013… and had inexplicably ended up in Glastonbury. There was, after all, only one way we would choose to go home from there… and that … Continue reading →

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Uncertainty and renewal

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It is spring. The sun is shining. Everywhere there are flowers, trees are heavy with apple and cherry blossom, hedgerows are white with a bridal veil of blackthorn and alive with small birds. It is as if the earth herself … Continue reading →

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Sidetracked

Posted on April 11, 2020 by Sue Vincent

  From the archives: What was supposed to be a quick, two day ‘raid’ on Dorset, back in 2013, somehow expanded, as our travels seem to do, to include a few other places… like Somerset. And eventually, Wiltshire… Sitting on … Continue reading →

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More high places

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Sue Vincent

From the archives: The second day of our flying visit to Dorset in 2013… I would not want you to think we had been having a good time. No. Would we? Manfully (or, perhaps, hobbitfully in my case), we have … Continue reading →

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St Albans – stained glass and mediaeval paint

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The sixth post on our visit to the Abbey of St Albans a few years ago. Parts One, Two, Three, Four and Five can be found by clicking the highlighted links. The very first time Stuart came down to visit, … Continue reading →

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