Tag Archives: time

Marking time

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

The action of turning the calendar page is a challenge to understand how each day anchors us in that moment between the gravity of time and the weightlessness of eternity. Continue reading →

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God’s time

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

God’s relationship with our time-bound world is much more poetic and less literal than a counting down of days between the first and the second creation to come. Continue reading →

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Timely: a psalm

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Bend my time back to the moment
when You are ever present,
and let it be now. Continue reading →

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In time

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Without time,
can even God make a beginning? Continue reading →

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Advent in the meantime

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

Light and dark his skin and mine. “Who has the time?” he asked. I had said, “I am a process person.” He said it quietly, but I heard the harmonic ringing out: “Time is a privilege.” The time between “thy … Continue reading →

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St Michael and All Angels

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

They were not created on the first day. They are not light, nor dark; they live in bright shadows in between. They do not rise nor set; they were not created on the fourth day. They are not reputed to … Continue reading →

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I had time

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

This morning, I had time, but, fickle friend that it is, it ran out on me, and I found myself as usual chasing it down the street and down the day … Continue reading →

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Advent meditation: parables, fools, and poetry

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Rosalind C Hughes

Written for the Diocese of Ohio Advent meditations collection, Advent 2014 (see more at http://www.dohio.org) Readings for Thursday of the First Week of Advent: Psalm 118: 19-24; Isaiah 26: 1-6; Matthew 7: 21-27 Rock of Ages They called him a … Continue reading →

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When

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Rosalind C Hughes

In the beginning, you created time, moments given to live in. Our time’s not our own. Although you made us with all the time in the world, the little we find we keep tightly wound as though we make time for … Continue reading →

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