We arise today
in the Eternal Flow of Mercy
who was here when the land began to breathe,
when the first tribes began to roam,
and when the colonists came to settle.
We arise today
in the Eternal Flow of Wisdom
who is dimly perceived in the stones,
the stories and the studies of all our peoples.
We arise today
in the Eternal Flow of Life
who seeps through land and limb and love.
Amen.
Ray Simpson is Founding Guardian of the International Community of Aidan and Hilda and is a well known author. He lives on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, UK, where the Community has a base for resources, study and retreat.
Next year's referendum on Independence for Scotland brings campaigners' arguments into prominence. Holy Island lies within Berwick District Council. Berwick-Upon-Tweed has been in and out of Scotland and England fourteen times. The international Community of Aidan (a Scot) and Hilda (English) embraces people of diverse political opinions - so what... 
Capitalism is in crisis.
It has been becme divorced from moral norms.......
What is the way forward?
Ray suggests it lies in an increase of Downwardly Mobile people - able Chrisitans who lay down their lives for the common good.
a prayer...
books
His Complete Celtic Prayers -
£29.99 + P&P
The Cowshed Revolution
£12.99 + P&P
#HolySpirit tongue of flame
With love and wisdom burning bright
Alight on me before it's night.
Spirit blazing, tongue of flame
With love and wisdom burning bright
Alight on me before it's night.
Spirit leaping, fount of life
Whose timeless source is never dry
Flow into me ‘ere down I lie
Spirit of God, fire us up with the boldness of noble deeds.
God of sea and land, impart to us, as you did to St. Brendan, an adventurous spirit as pioneers and pilgrims of the faith of Christ.
Make us fertile ground, ready to receive the gifts you wish to shower upon us.
On rigid old codgers and the rest of us, come Divine Wind that blows across barriers.
On narcissistic millennials, and on the rest of us, come Self-sacrificing Flame (pre Pentecost Tweet of the Day).
A cloud hid you from sight when you were raised to Life Without Limits: when our lives are clouded take us in hand (Prayer Tweet of the Day)
Moment by moment I've grace from above.
Moment by moment I'm kept in His love -
Looking to Jesus until down comes the Dove.
