The Coracle Trust

Welcome to The Coracle Trust

The Coracle Trust is a charity based in Edinburgh that supports churches and individuals in transitioning in faith through the life stages. We offer places of hospitality for pilgrims and navigators to share stories, cultivate learning and instil an openness towards this Christ of the road, this God of the high seas. More about the Trust →

Coracle Trust E-Reflections

Our E-reflections are word and image based meditations expressing Coracle's desire to foster reflective practice in a daily life often mobbed with urgent and demanding voices - please click each day's heading to reveal its reflection:

Thursday 19 January 2012

Faith transitions: Compass and rudder »

Shall I then suffer every kind of wound that the sea can inflict?
Shall I take my tiny boat across the wide sparkling ocean?
O King of the Glorious Heaven, shall I go of my own choice upon the sea?

O Christ, will You help me on the wild waves?

St. Brendan’s Prayer

Thursday 12 January 2012

Faith transitions: Secure and strange »

People need a life of practical romance;
the combination of something that is strange
with something that is secure.
Orthodoxy: the romance of faith, G.K. Chesterton

Thursday 24 November 2011

Advent 2011: That we may be one »

Make ready for the Face that speaks like lightning,
Uttering the new name of your exultation
Deep in the vitals of your soul.

Make ready for the Christ, Whose smile, like lightning,
Sets free the song of everlasting glory
That now sleeps, in your paper flesh, like dynamite.

Thomas Merton

Thursday 17 November 2011

Faith transitions: Reading to Being Read »

What is this wondrous mystery
unfolding within me?
I have no words to name it,
for that One is above all praise,
transcends all words

St.Symeon the New Theologian

Thursday 3 November 2011

Faith transitions: Turning around yet one more time »

The soul should always stand ajar
That if the Heaven enquire
He will not be obliged to wait
Or shy of troubling Her

Emily Dickinson

Thursday 20 October 2011

Faith transitions: Deepening what we already have »

I tell you, do not worry about your life
Matthew 6:25

All past e-reflections »

Islands on seas

A need for inns on roads,
islands in seas.
Halts for discoveries
to be shared.
Maps checked,
notes compared.

'Not Love Perhaps', ASJ Tessimond

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