By Keren Dibbens-Wyatt — “For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.” 1 Peter 2:19 In his first…
by Keren Dibbens-Wyatt — International Artist Day was founded by Canadian painter, Chris MacClure, as a way of recognising the value of art and those who create it in our…
A short story about becoming hospitable to others and ourselves by Keren Dibbens-Wyatt — There once was an old stone wall. Its lot felt difficult and its burdens heavy. It…
Keren Dibbens-Wyatt — Blood curdles into the grain Mixes fresh with old Responding, the sap sings Though long dead and now discarded Roughly hewn and unplaned Yours the only carpenter’s…
Keren Dibbens-Wyatt — As regular readers know, many of us here at Godspace love gardens, and enjoy partnering with God in the process of helping nature bloom and thrive in…
By Keren Dibbens-Wyatt — At Fresh Mercies this year, I have been blogging about sight. Whether inner or outer, physical or spiritual, teamed with contemplation, It’s the primary tool of…
by Keren Dibbens-Wyatt Traditionally a time of thin places and a softening of the veil between the living and the dead, Hallowe’en has changed into a festival of masks and…
by Keren Dibbens-Wyatt “Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.” Isaiah 40:4 The fellowship…
Keren Dibbens-Wyatt — Saint Francis of Assisi, whose feast day we celebrate in this piece, is not an easy one to live with. He is deeply and simply radical, to…