Heaven in Ordinary

‘Heaven in Ordinary’ is going to be the theme of the Greenbelt Festival next year. The particulars are on the Greenbelt site. ‘Heaven in Ordinary’ is, I have discovered, a phrase from a peoem by George Herbert entitled ‘Prayer‘. John Davies has written a splendid piece in this month’s Third Way about looking for heavenly…

heaven in ordinary‘Heaven in Ordinary’ is going to be the theme of the Greenbelt Festival next year. The particulars are on the Greenbelt site. ‘Heaven in Ordinary’ is, I have discovered, a phrase from a peoem by George Herbert entitled ‘Prayer‘.

John Davies has written a splendid piece in this month’s Third Way about looking for heavenly things in the ordinariness of life. It is available as a pdf download (about 600kb) on a site called Urblog. John’s website (always good value) is here and Third Way has a website too.

John did a talk on this subject at this year’s festival which I didn’t get to hear, but I imgine it might have been along the same sort of lines as this article.

More later perhaps, but for now my internet time has reached a curtailment.