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Christian Poetry, creativity, faith, Friday Blessing, love, poetry, prayer, reflections, spiritual, stitching, Women
Womb
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Continue reading →: WombI recently had a piece of poetry published in the Refresh magazine. The link to find it is here https://www.sgm.org.nz/blog/poem-womb-miriam-jesse-fisher-refresh-sacred-feminine I stitched some of it recently on a beautiful hand woven textile that has been part of my collection for some time.
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Contemplative Art Making
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Continue reading →: Contemplative Art MakingMany of my pieces of work in research spaces end up behind paywalls but I am thrilled that the latest version of Spiritus has been released open access. I have a piece in it that I would love to share with you. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/956954 This piece came out of a project…
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Pilgrimage
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Continue reading →: PilgrimageThis is a piece I wrote as part of a conference in a creative writing session. I’ve been reflecting on it as I prepare to share some thoughts on stitching and pilgrimage at a conference soon. you solitary against the wind through God-only-knows storms propelled by the thinnest of structures…
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Christian Poetry, confession, creativity, expectations, faith, grace, grief, hope, judgement, poetry, prayer, reflections
When Your Gift Feels Like a Weapon
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Continue reading →: When Your Gift Feels Like a WeaponIt always feels incredibly personal when well recognised names on Church/Christian platforms have both sorrows and scandals. I’ve been reflecting (as many have) on the death of Tim Keller and on a different man from the UK who has been outed/is being investigated for scandals/abuse. This is my response: there…
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Grief
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Continue reading →: GriefThere are people in my life at the moment carry loss – deep loss, unexpected loss, unfair loss, wave after wave of losses and change. I find myself standing on the edges of it, breath held I fill up like a balloon holding the pressure of these things and hoping…
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Holy Week
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Continue reading →: Holy WeekIt is not Holy Week without the heralds shouting hosannas and hallelujahs without beginning with an imagination that all is well, will be well, that the Messiah is come. Holy Week involves the turn from joy to lament from hosanna to horror from orientation to disorientation imagined triumph to witnessed…
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Poetry … more from lockdown
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Continue reading →: Poetry … more from lockdownLockdown, locked in, isolated. Physical distance, social distance, zoom fatigue. So has been and continues to be the experience of many this strange year. This is the second piece of poetry I had published in Stimulus magazine earlier in the year. It is called 19/20 (as in Covid19 in 2020)…
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Continue reading →: Poetry and Covid
I’m so thrilled and honoured to have my first piece of peer-reviewed poetry published in a special edition of Stimulus Journal. My piece is called telos (which means goal, the ending point of things). I wrote it in response to an experience I had while making the quilt top in…
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I’m Miriam Jessie
Nau mai, haere mai (welcome) from Aotearoa/ New Zealand. I’m an educator, theologian, poet, textile artist, extrovert and lover of the Church. This is a space primarily for Christian poetry and blessing but also reflection. Want to use my work or know more? Please check in via a comment or email.
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