Author: Ian Trimnell

REEL by Barbara Crooker Maybe night is about to come calling, but right now the sun is still high in the sky. It’s half-past October, the woods are on fire, blue skies stretch all the way to heaven. Of course, we know that winter is coming, its thin winding sheets and its hard narrow bed. But...

AS I GREW OLDER by Langston Hughes It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun– My dream. And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose until it touched the sky– The wall. Shadow....

Control your thoughts Thoughts are powerful. Your thoughts are your own creation. God has not put a limit on your ability to think. We must be able to control our thoughts in the positive way and leave healthy and happy. The possibility through our mind is endless. Our bright future is determined by the quality and...

Good morning Cornerstone friends and all Living Stones Heavenly Father we praise and thank you for your protection and guidance, we cannot do the things that we ought to do without your help. Today let us focus on our many blessings.  We thank You for the opportunity to ask for forgiveness.  As we experience the joys...

OCTOBER by Robert Frost O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us...

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,...

Suzanne Richardson-Bailey

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...

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...

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....

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...