the headspace collective

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  • 05:36:40 pm on October 14, 2009 | 0 | # |

    Clearly there’s not a lot happening on this blog just now.   So why not check out this site: http://boroughcommon.wordpress.com/

    It may in some ways be somewhat familiar.

     

  • 12:26:00 pm on July 14, 2009 | 0 | # |

    Below is a collection of words from Headspace from the other week that explored worship and music.  It’s more a series of questions, really, about why I might not generally particularly like worship music.   The questions are largely rhetorical, however, if you feel the need to comment…

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  • 01:06:29 pm on March 9, 2009 | 3 | # |

    Here is what Headspace might not be.  But then it might be some small fragment of what it might be.  So I thought I’d post it.  Hopefully it’s at least suitably ambiguous.  Any thoughts, anyone…?

     

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  • 10:47:45 am on October 27, 2008 | 0 | # |

    In the tensions integral to creation,
         in the way that this world was made;
    In the tensions between each other,
         our disagreements and our differences;
    In the tensions within each of us;
         those questions unresolved and irresolvable;

    When we feel drawn in all directions;
         that is where faith is faith,
         and we are drawn to God.

     

  • 12:19:13 pm on October 15, 2008 | 1 | # |

    Here follows a crossword.  At some point I’ll post the solutions I’m sure, if anyone’s interested.

     

     

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  • 02:31:07 pm on October 13, 2008 | 0 | # |

    We participate daily in your creation, Lord.  That is the wonder:  we, the creation, create.

    All: May we never tire of the wonder!

    May we see you in what we create.

    All: May what we create be pleasing to you.

    May we embrace this: to create with our God!

    All: Our lives, the world around us…

    We wonder at your creation, Lord, and our place in it.

    Amen

     

  • 02:25:10 pm on October 13, 2008 | 0 | # |

    We must create, but understand it alongside destruction.  It is we who decide what is termed ‘creative’ and what is termed ‘destructive’.  It is not ‘all the same’. 

    We make our choices in the face of this knowledge; the knowledge that when we create, something is destroyed.  When something is destroyed something new is created.

    We cannot escape this: indeed, it is the very stuff of existence.

    We are destroyed by creation even as we are created by it.  One day the destruction will overtake us.  But something new will still be created.

    Until then, how will – how do – we take part in the creative process, what part will we take in God’s creation?  What will we create?  What will we destroy?

    It is the question we answer with our lives.

     

  • 10:07:53 am on September 29, 2008 | 0 | # |

    As my microphone etiquette might not be quite what it could be, I thought I’d post here what I said in the introduction to last night’s service.  Or tried to say.  More or less, anyway.

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  • 11:31:13 am on May 1, 2008 | 1 | # |

    This is (one of) the recurrent question(s) of a society which, like it or not, is moving towards a postmodern way of thinking.  What is?  No not that.  Rather, how can every point of view be acceptable, and equally valid, when some assert the suppression of others? (More …)

     

  • 03:50:25 pm on April 22, 2008 | 1 | # |

    I’ve always had my doubts about church.co.uk as a name for a church.  But now I’m beginning to have second thoughts about the name Headspace.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headspace .  As far as I know, there is no connection.  I hope not anyway.

     

  • 04:49:10 pm on March 19, 2008 | 0 | # |

    I must confess that I’m not a great sleeper.  Well, that’s not entirely true – give me a seat on a bus (or even a place to lean), my desk at work, or an engrossing film, say, and then just try to keep me awake.  But as for night time, in bed?  Well, that’s something quite different.  I’ll either lie awake for hours, despite my desperate need for sleep, or I will get to sleep at a reasonable time and then wake up a couple of hours later.  And then, in the morning, I’ll have to force myself out of bed, feeling like I haven’t slept at all. 

    But I don’t mean just to moan about a mild case of insomnia.  There is an important point here.  Honestly.  Well, I think there might be.  (More …)

     

  • 12:18:40 am on March 18, 2008 | 0 | # |

    Perhaps a little less frivolous (or pointless, if you will), here are some of the items used in Headspace in the run up to Easter. Using a number of the characters to bring out different aspects of the story, these are a few vague meditations/prayers, and a bit of liturgy.

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  • 04:03:33 pm on March 17, 2008 | 0 | # |

    Perhaps not everyone will know, but today is a very special day.  Yes, it is St Patrick’s Day, but that is truly shadowed by something else commemorated today.  Follows is a short poem in celebration.  Hopefully it is self-explanatory.

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