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  • Just in time for Advent: “Something new” republished
  • Refresh and restart
  • Even our prickles and thorns…
  • “Rainbow Trinity” in Q-Spirit blog
  • New music for contemporary hymn lyrics

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  • Welcome
    • About
    • why I create liturgical resources
    • Contact
    • follow – join email list
    • Sharing the words
  • Advent, Christmas and New Year
  • Books
    • You who delight me
    • Something new to say
    • Reviews
    • Order and pay online
  • Gathering & Blessing
    • Annunciation Blessing
    • Approach—we come in faith
    • Blessing and thanks for insights
    • Blessing for the Way
    • Blessing on Maundy Thursday
    • Call to Worship: faith journeys
    • celestial brightness
    • Christmas Blessing
    • Go in peace
    • Farewell blessing – sure promise
    • let grace adorn our lives
    • Litany for the journey
    • Mānawatanga (Blessing)
    • we come in faith
  • Affirmations and prayers
    • A New Prayer
    • a difficult week
    • Advent prayer: We didn’t expect you so soon
    • Advent affirmation
    • Affirmation of Faith: living as if we matter
    • botanic garden prayers
    • Compassion, Decisions, Tragedy, Thanksgiving
    • confess, forgive, celebrate
    • Cosmic love – Jesus and people of many faiths
    • creating, planning, generating
    • Framework of Christmas
    • grief and rebirth
    • drama of our lives
    • “Go and do likewise”
    • Prayers of Homecoming & Reconciliation
    • Love is Love – 30 years on
    • May the anger of Christ be ours
    • mixed messages & mixed-up ideals
    • O god who we create…
    • Prayer at Pentecost in Aotearoa
    • rainbow trinity
    • raindrops pizzicato
    • spirit bubbling
    • Transgender Remembrance
    • Trinity Spiral Dance
    • We wait in the quiet of this whare kōwhanga
    • Wind and fire that inspired the apostles
    • world communion
    • Thanksgiving and offering
      • offering prayers
      • every good gift
  • Reflections (aka sermons)
    • Allies or Traitors? Waitangi weekend reflection
    • Blessed be the work of our hands (Labour weekend)
    • But where are the others?
    • Entertaining angels
    • Exodus liturgies
    • Living “as if” – some thoughts on faith and failure
    • Holy Families, Outrageous Possibilities
    • It matters what we do
    • Matariki: a time to tell our stories (Reflection)
    • Memory and mystery: An Epiphany Reflection
    • Milk from the breast of Christ
    • Mothering God
    • Put on your glad rags and break the rules!
    • sacred stones and sites – reflection and liturgy
    • Standing in the Sky
    • Take off your shoes!
    • Te Tumu Herenga Waka and the Fishers
    • Where is my place? Who are my people?
  • Hymn lyrics
    • Amazing grace—how foreign to a skeptic such as me
    • Easter hymn: Quick past the places we used to meet
    • Easter hymn: We walk the way that has no end
    • Faith of metaphor and mystery
    • Faith of metaphor & mystery (wedding version)
    • He Waiata mō Aotearoa (Song for Aotearoa)
    • Our city in the spring
    • st andrew’s carol
    • Telling our stories
    • Your stories tell our lives
    • wise ones’ carol
  • List of liturgy resources
    • Advent, Christmas and New Year
    • Lent – Easter – Passiontide – Pentecost
    • Matariki – Waitangi – Creation
    • Rainbow resources
    • Season of Creation
    • Seasons
    • Social justice themes
  • Links & connections
  • Occasional blog
    • An evolving response… Christchurch, Friday 15 March 2019
    • Did wise women visit Jesus?
    • Even our prickles and thorns…
    • in the wake of racist terror attack
    • Just in time for Advent and Christmas: “Something new to say”
    • Just in time for Advent: “Something new” republished
    • Liturgy in a time of isolation
    • New Advent Prayer
    • New music for contemporary hymn lyrics
    • Out of season
    • “Rainbow Trinity” in Q-Spirit blog
    • Refresh and restart
    • Spirit through the Seasons
    • Two Epiphany Reflections
    • Winter is coming… and spring, summer & autumn – but not just yet

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Menu

  • Welcome
    • About
    • why I create liturgical resources
    • Contact
    • follow – join email list
    • Sharing the words
  • Advent, Christmas and New Year
  • Books
    • You who delight me
    • Something new to say
    • Reviews
    • Order and pay online
  • Gathering & Blessing
    • Annunciation Blessing
    • Approach—we come in faith
    • Blessing and thanks for insights
    • Blessing for the Way
    • Blessing on Maundy Thursday
    • Call to Worship: faith journeys
    • celestial brightness
    • Christmas Blessing
    • Go in peace
    • Farewell blessing – sure promise
    • let grace adorn our lives
    • Litany for the journey
    • Mānawatanga (Blessing)
    • we come in faith
  • Affirmations and prayers
    • A New Prayer
    • a difficult week
    • Advent prayer: We didn’t expect you so soon
    • Advent affirmation
    • Affirmation of Faith: living as if we matter
    • botanic garden prayers
    • Compassion, Decisions, Tragedy, Thanksgiving
    • confess, forgive, celebrate
    • Cosmic love – Jesus and people of many faiths
    • creating, planning, generating
    • Framework of Christmas
    • grief and rebirth
    • drama of our lives
    • “Go and do likewise”
    • Prayers of Homecoming & Reconciliation
    • Love is Love – 30 years on
    • May the anger of Christ be ours
    • mixed messages & mixed-up ideals
    • O god who we create…
    • Prayer at Pentecost in Aotearoa
    • rainbow trinity
    • raindrops pizzicato
    • spirit bubbling
    • Transgender Remembrance
    • Trinity Spiral Dance
    • We wait in the quiet of this whare kōwhanga
    • Wind and fire that inspired the apostles
    • world communion
    • Thanksgiving and offering
      • offering prayers
      • every good gift
  • Reflections (aka sermons)
    • Allies or Traitors? Waitangi weekend reflection
    • Blessed be the work of our hands (Labour weekend)
    • But where are the others?
    • Entertaining angels
    • Exodus liturgies
    • Living “as if” – some thoughts on faith and failure
    • Holy Families, Outrageous Possibilities
    • It matters what we do
    • Matariki: a time to tell our stories (Reflection)
    • Memory and mystery: An Epiphany Reflection
    • Milk from the breast of Christ
    • Mothering God
    • Put on your glad rags and break the rules!
    • sacred stones and sites – reflection and liturgy
    • Standing in the Sky
    • Take off your shoes!
    • Te Tumu Herenga Waka and the Fishers
    • Where is my place? Who are my people?
  • Hymn lyrics
    • Amazing grace—how foreign to a skeptic such as me
    • Easter hymn: Quick past the places we used to meet
    • Easter hymn: We walk the way that has no end
    • Faith of metaphor and mystery
    • Faith of metaphor & mystery (wedding version)
    • He Waiata mō Aotearoa (Song for Aotearoa)
    • Our city in the spring
    • st andrew’s carol
    • Telling our stories
    • Your stories tell our lives
    • wise ones’ carol
  • List of liturgy resources
    • Advent, Christmas and New Year
    • Lent – Easter – Passiontide – Pentecost
    • Matariki – Waitangi – Creation
    • Rainbow resources
    • Season of Creation
    • Seasons
    • Social justice themes
  • Links & connections
  • Occasional blog
    • An evolving response… Christchurch, Friday 15 March 2019
    • Did wise women visit Jesus?
    • Even our prickles and thorns…
    • in the wake of racist terror attack
    • Just in time for Advent and Christmas: “Something new to say”
    • Just in time for Advent: “Something new” republished
    • Liturgy in a time of isolation
    • New Advent Prayer
    • New music for contemporary hymn lyrics
    • Out of season
    • “Rainbow Trinity” in Q-Spirit blog
    • Refresh and restart
    • Spirit through the Seasons
    • Two Epiphany Reflections
    • Winter is coming… and spring, summer & autumn – but not just yet
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