Skip to content

Grits and Grains

notices and reflections in ministry

#cLection
About me
Poetry
Reading Acts

The Garden of Love

Posted on January 17, 2008March 24, 2013 by David Herbert

>Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds
and binding with briars my joys and desires.

William Blake from The Garden of Love. Listen

The picture is by Kandinsky

Share this:

Tweet
Pocket

Like this:

Like Loading...

Posted in ministry and mission, spiritualityTagged William Blake

Post navigation

Previous Post >A green place in a burnt land

Next Post >Lonely Heart

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (Address never made public)

Name

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email.

Δ

Thank you for visiting Grains of Sand.

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address:

Join 1,748 other subscribers

Search this site

Search for:

Twitter

Tweets by davidrherb

Recent Posts

Pentecost and the love of language
Mission that ends ends: preaching from Ascension to Pentecost
Redressing the power of kings – a sermon for coronation weekend
Taking sides on the road to Emmaus
The shocking truth of my feet: a sermon for Maundy Thursday

Pages

#cLection
About me
Poetry
Reading Acts

Top Posts & Pages

The Negative Spaces We Forget
Refugees: a poem by Brian Bilston
Sunflowers weeping
Pentecost and the love of language

Follow Grits and Grains on WordPress.com

Categories

#cLectio
Acts
art
books and film
community
dead cheesy
general
justice
leadership
ministry and mission
organisation
poetry
put simply
quote
reblogs
sermon
shorts
spirituality
theology
time
Uncategorized

Tags

#cLectio adult education Advent art Belbin blessing books change chaordic Chester Cathedral Children Christmas church communication community compassion Creation Dee Hock disability diversity Easter Ellesmere Port Exodus Faith Film forgiveness Fun giving grief Henri Nouwen hope hospitality institution Islam Jan Richardson Jesus leadership learning Lent Leonard Cohen listening love Malcolm Guite Meg Wheatley ministry and mission Miroslav Volf mission music mypoetry organisation Parker Palmer Paul peace Pentecost poem poetry poverty power prayer preaching quote Reading reconciliation Refugees relationships sermon sexuality spirituality supervision teaching time Uncategorized vocation Walter Brueggeman wisdom

Follow Us

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

Follow Following
- Grits and Grains
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

%d bloggers like this: