Author: Ian Trimnell

Morning Prayer Monday, 18 October 2021

I AM LEARNING NOTHING TONIGHT by Reginald Dwayne Betts The magazine on my lap talks about milk. Tells me that in America, every farmer lost money on every cow, every day of every month of the year. Imagine that? To wake up and know you’re digging yourself deeper into a hole you can’t see out of,...

Sunday Evening Together, 17 October 2021

At 6pm we will be leading the next Sunday Evening Together. This will be a relaxed time of fellowship with songs, reading, prayer.  All the items have been chosen by people who attend these meetings. We plan that the meeting will be no more than 45 minutes long. While this is aimed primarily at those of...

Holy Communion – Live Streamed – Sunday, 17 October 2021

Preacher: Revd Paul Le Sueur Celebrant: Revd Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga  Please note that the video feed will go live from around 9:50 am and will be switched off after the service. A separate video feed of the choir is available here. Services are not being recorded for publication later. Gathering Music Welcome Let us come together...

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Good Morning Cornerstone Friends. I hope you like this photo of the Abbey at Iona which is situated off the Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland. I have visited this beautiful island and I know that some of you have too. Based there is the Iona Community which is a dispersed ecumenical Christian...

Morning Prayer Tuesday, 12 October 2021

O God, our help and our hope – thank you for the privilege of another day lived with you. Another day to experience your wondrous love and to be in fellowship with each other and the opportunity to share that through prayers, words of encourage and pictures of flowers.  And thank you for the unexpected sunshine...

Morning Prayer Monday, 11 October 2021

THE ROAD by Raymond Carver What a rough night! It’s either no dreams at all, or else a dream that may or may not be a dream portending loss. Last night I was dropped off without a word on a  country road. A house back in the hills showed a light no bigger than a star....

Sunday Evening Together, 10 October 2021

At 6pm Revd. Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga will be leading the next Sunday Evening Together. This will be a relaxed time of fellowship with songs, reading, prayer.  All the items have been chosen by people who attend these meetings. We plan that the meeting will be no more than 45 minutes long. While this is aimed primarily at...

Morning Prayer Tuesday, 5 October 2021

THE LIFE YOU COULD BE LIVING (IF YOU WERENT LIVING THIS ONE) by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg The life you could be living aches in its compression, tires of being a spark, an asteroid, a falling raindrop bouncing when it hits. It’s wound tight between muscle and sinew, lodged in the happy gaps of a synapse. It’s fluid...

Morning Prayer Monday, 4 October 2021

MOTHER TO SON by Langston Hughes Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’...

Sunday Evening Together – 3 October 2021

At 6pm we will be leading the next Sunday Evening Together. This will be a relaxed time of fellowship with songs, reading, prayer.  All the items have been chosen by people who attend these meetings. We plan that the meeting will be no more than 45 minutes long. While this is aimed primarily at those of...

Harvest Giving – 2021

This HARVEST FESTIVAL you will have an opportunity to give a HARVEST THANKSGIVING GIFT.
This is a special donation towards our mission of HOPE.
Click on the blue heading above to read all the details.

Morning Prayer Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Good morning, Cornerstone Friends. One of the things I most appreciate in nature is the changing of the seasons. As we look around us now we can see signs of the beginning of autumn: beautiful, lush red berries, orange and russet leaves on some of the trees, crunchy leaves underfoot, brambles growing by the redways and...