Bodmin Hermit
@bodminhermit.bsky.social
Franciscan Hermit. Retired Hospice Chaplain. C of E, but multifaith contemplative stance. Silence, Poems, Prayers and Promises.
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THE PRODIGAL: Whatever you've done, it doesn't matter cos darling we're all a little splintered and battered...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2F...
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Joy Williams - Front Porch
YouTube video by JoyWilliamsVEVO
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January 16, 2026 at 10:10 AM
THE PRODIGAL: Whatever you've done, it doesn't matter cos darling we're all a little splintered and battered...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2F...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2F...
ABUNDANT BLESSINGS:
God beyond space,
God beyond time,
God beyond matter,
God beyond words,
God beyond understanding,
accompany us through our day…
Amen.
God beyond space,
God beyond time,
God beyond matter,
God beyond words,
God beyond understanding,
accompany us through our day…
Amen.
January 16, 2026 at 9:15 AM
ABUNDANT BLESSINGS:
God beyond space,
God beyond time,
God beyond matter,
God beyond words,
God beyond understanding,
accompany us through our day…
Amen.
God beyond space,
God beyond time,
God beyond matter,
God beyond words,
God beyond understanding,
accompany us through our day…
Amen.
MORNING PRAYER:
Lord of Life, may today bring…
paths to discover, possibilities to choose,
people to encounter, peace to possess,
promises to fulfil, pardon to accept
and a Presence to proclaim.
Lord of Life, may today bring…
paths to discover, possibilities to choose,
people to encounter, peace to possess,
promises to fulfil, pardon to accept
and a Presence to proclaim.
January 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
MORNING PRAYER:
Lord of Life, may today bring…
paths to discover, possibilities to choose,
people to encounter, peace to possess,
promises to fulfil, pardon to accept
and a Presence to proclaim.
Lord of Life, may today bring…
paths to discover, possibilities to choose,
people to encounter, peace to possess,
promises to fulfil, pardon to accept
and a Presence to proclaim.
PONDER:
It will be a river my small voice in you
which now trails weakly
like a stream among boulders.
It will burn bright
Do you not see it?
You will wear glory like a gown.
For now be foolish,
All will be well
be my clown,
and it will be a river,
my small truth in you.
It will be a river my small voice in you
which now trails weakly
like a stream among boulders.
It will burn bright
Do you not see it?
You will wear glory like a gown.
For now be foolish,
All will be well
be my clown,
and it will be a river,
my small truth in you.
January 16, 2026 at 8:55 AM
PONDER:
It will be a river my small voice in you
which now trails weakly
like a stream among boulders.
It will burn bright
Do you not see it?
You will wear glory like a gown.
For now be foolish,
All will be well
be my clown,
and it will be a river,
my small truth in you.
It will be a river my small voice in you
which now trails weakly
like a stream among boulders.
It will burn bright
Do you not see it?
You will wear glory like a gown.
For now be foolish,
All will be well
be my clown,
and it will be a river,
my small truth in you.
HERMIT RULE 16:
Cultivate non-dual consciousness.
Remain open and vulnerable.
Instead of spiritualities give way to the Spirit.
Cultivate non-dual consciousness.
Remain open and vulnerable.
Instead of spiritualities give way to the Spirit.
January 16, 2026 at 8:37 AM
HERMIT RULE 16:
Cultivate non-dual consciousness.
Remain open and vulnerable.
Instead of spiritualities give way to the Spirit.
Cultivate non-dual consciousness.
Remain open and vulnerable.
Instead of spiritualities give way to the Spirit.
Deep Relaxation, Deep healing
He (she) who sings prays twice...
Try it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xj...
He (she) who sings prays twice...
Try it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xj...
Healing African Music | Soothing Zulu Vocals & Tribal Rhythms for Deep Relaxation
YouTube video by World Music
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January 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Deep Relaxation, Deep healing
He (she) who sings prays twice...
Try it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xj...
He (she) who sings prays twice...
Try it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xj...
MORNING PRAYER:
You are with us Lord Christ and we have seen you,
In the mist rising from the moors,
In the sun breaking across the fields,
In the wind waving the trees branches,
In the smile of a stranger,
You are among us Lord… and we have seen you.
Bodmin Moor
You are with us Lord Christ and we have seen you,
In the mist rising from the moors,
In the sun breaking across the fields,
In the wind waving the trees branches,
In the smile of a stranger,
You are among us Lord… and we have seen you.
Bodmin Moor
January 15, 2026 at 8:27 AM
MORNING PRAYER:
You are with us Lord Christ and we have seen you,
In the mist rising from the moors,
In the sun breaking across the fields,
In the wind waving the trees branches,
In the smile of a stranger,
You are among us Lord… and we have seen you.
Bodmin Moor
You are with us Lord Christ and we have seen you,
In the mist rising from the moors,
In the sun breaking across the fields,
In the wind waving the trees branches,
In the smile of a stranger,
You are among us Lord… and we have seen you.
Bodmin Moor
THE SINGING BOWL - Malcolm Guite
Decluttering and sinking into silence…
helps you to know that the
place where you are is the place you are meant to be.
The singing bowl as a metaphor for prayer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkl...
Decluttering and sinking into silence…
helps you to know that the
place where you are is the place you are meant to be.
The singing bowl as a metaphor for prayer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkl...
January 15, 2026 at 8:18 AM
THE SINGING BOWL - Malcolm Guite
Decluttering and sinking into silence…
helps you to know that the
place where you are is the place you are meant to be.
The singing bowl as a metaphor for prayer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkl...
Decluttering and sinking into silence…
helps you to know that the
place where you are is the place you are meant to be.
The singing bowl as a metaphor for prayer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkl...
Been down to the river to pray lately..?
Good Lord show me the way...
Sing with me?
O sinners lets go down to the river to pray
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif...
Good Lord show me the way...
Sing with me?
O sinners lets go down to the river to pray
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif...
Down To The River To Pray - Alison Krauss
YouTube video by David Webb
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January 15, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Been down to the river to pray lately..?
Good Lord show me the way...
Sing with me?
O sinners lets go down to the river to pray
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif...
Good Lord show me the way...
Sing with me?
O sinners lets go down to the river to pray
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif...
TRINITY
Accompany Him faithfully
and once regenerated in Him
explore His secrets so that on the banks of the Jordan
you may discern the Father in the voice
the son in the flesh and the Holy Spirit in the Dove
and when the Trinity is opened to you
you will be taken up into God.
Accompany Him faithfully
and once regenerated in Him
explore His secrets so that on the banks of the Jordan
you may discern the Father in the voice
the son in the flesh and the Holy Spirit in the Dove
and when the Trinity is opened to you
you will be taken up into God.
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 AM
TRINITY
Accompany Him faithfully
and once regenerated in Him
explore His secrets so that on the banks of the Jordan
you may discern the Father in the voice
the son in the flesh and the Holy Spirit in the Dove
and when the Trinity is opened to you
you will be taken up into God.
Accompany Him faithfully
and once regenerated in Him
explore His secrets so that on the banks of the Jordan
you may discern the Father in the voice
the son in the flesh and the Holy Spirit in the Dove
and when the Trinity is opened to you
you will be taken up into God.
HERMIT RULE 15:
Convert yourself into a disciple who knows how to listen and discern. On many occasions sounds manifest silence. Indeed, the important thing is not what arrives but how we receive it.
God doesn’t want something from us…
He Simply Wants Us
C.S. Lewis
Convert yourself into a disciple who knows how to listen and discern. On many occasions sounds manifest silence. Indeed, the important thing is not what arrives but how we receive it.
God doesn’t want something from us…
He Simply Wants Us
C.S. Lewis
January 15, 2026 at 7:31 AM
HERMIT RULE 15:
Convert yourself into a disciple who knows how to listen and discern. On many occasions sounds manifest silence. Indeed, the important thing is not what arrives but how we receive it.
God doesn’t want something from us…
He Simply Wants Us
C.S. Lewis
Convert yourself into a disciple who knows how to listen and discern. On many occasions sounds manifest silence. Indeed, the important thing is not what arrives but how we receive it.
God doesn’t want something from us…
He Simply Wants Us
C.S. Lewis
LETTING GO...
You cannot talk God into coming into you by longer and more urgent prayers, God is already present, God’s spirit is dwelling within you. All you can do is become quieter, smaller and less filled with your own self and its flurry of ideas and feelings.
You cannot talk God into coming into you by longer and more urgent prayers, God is already present, God’s spirit is dwelling within you. All you can do is become quieter, smaller and less filled with your own self and its flurry of ideas and feelings.
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 AM
LETTING GO...
You cannot talk God into coming into you by longer and more urgent prayers, God is already present, God’s spirit is dwelling within you. All you can do is become quieter, smaller and less filled with your own self and its flurry of ideas and feelings.
You cannot talk God into coming into you by longer and more urgent prayers, God is already present, God’s spirit is dwelling within you. All you can do is become quieter, smaller and less filled with your own self and its flurry of ideas and feelings.
HERMIT RULE 14:
Remember you are a pilgrim in the evolving desert of this world, therefore hold all things lightly, as if for a season. So too, welcome fellow pilgrims with monastic hospitality as you would welcome Christ into your home.
Remember you are a pilgrim in the evolving desert of this world, therefore hold all things lightly, as if for a season. So too, welcome fellow pilgrims with monastic hospitality as you would welcome Christ into your home.
January 14, 2026 at 7:04 AM
HERMIT RULE 14:
Remember you are a pilgrim in the evolving desert of this world, therefore hold all things lightly, as if for a season. So too, welcome fellow pilgrims with monastic hospitality as you would welcome Christ into your home.
Remember you are a pilgrim in the evolving desert of this world, therefore hold all things lightly, as if for a season. So too, welcome fellow pilgrims with monastic hospitality as you would welcome Christ into your home.
You've just described a greyhound's bed!!
January 13, 2026 at 1:22 PM
You've just described a greyhound's bed!!
SEA CLOAK - ( Bruce Driver )
Tides watch my life,
bringing it breath in Monastic waters
Life lived not at high promenade
all spray noise & catch the dry-boned passer by
But out on gulls ebb cry
where my uncertain figure guards strange truth
hardly noticed in sea's kindly mist.
Tides watch my life,
bringing it breath in Monastic waters
Life lived not at high promenade
all spray noise & catch the dry-boned passer by
But out on gulls ebb cry
where my uncertain figure guards strange truth
hardly noticed in sea's kindly mist.
January 13, 2026 at 1:19 PM
SEA CLOAK - ( Bruce Driver )
Tides watch my life,
bringing it breath in Monastic waters
Life lived not at high promenade
all spray noise & catch the dry-boned passer by
But out on gulls ebb cry
where my uncertain figure guards strange truth
hardly noticed in sea's kindly mist.
Tides watch my life,
bringing it breath in Monastic waters
Life lived not at high promenade
all spray noise & catch the dry-boned passer by
But out on gulls ebb cry
where my uncertain figure guards strange truth
hardly noticed in sea's kindly mist.
GOD LOVES THE UNTIDY D.Bagott
God loves untidy corners, fecund & fragrant
The tangled bushes, warbler woven.
God loves the scruffy places green & growing
the flower spattered, vole ventured.
and strangely in incarnational excess
to the messy came
& for the 'messed up' (me) too.
God loves untidy corners, fecund & fragrant
The tangled bushes, warbler woven.
God loves the scruffy places green & growing
the flower spattered, vole ventured.
and strangely in incarnational excess
to the messy came
& for the 'messed up' (me) too.
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
GOD LOVES THE UNTIDY D.Bagott
God loves untidy corners, fecund & fragrant
The tangled bushes, warbler woven.
God loves the scruffy places green & growing
the flower spattered, vole ventured.
and strangely in incarnational excess
to the messy came
& for the 'messed up' (me) too.
God loves untidy corners, fecund & fragrant
The tangled bushes, warbler woven.
God loves the scruffy places green & growing
the flower spattered, vole ventured.
and strangely in incarnational excess
to the messy came
& for the 'messed up' (me) too.
JOHN BRADBURNE 1921- 1979 Mystic and Poet
STRANGE VAGABOND
who knows not what to seek...
God's love within you is your native land!
Then seek none other,
For you are homeless
save God keeps your heart.
(To a wandering Jew 1958)
STRANGE VAGABOND
who knows not what to seek...
God's love within you is your native land!
Then seek none other,
For you are homeless
save God keeps your heart.
(To a wandering Jew 1958)
January 13, 2026 at 12:07 PM
JOHN BRADBURNE 1921- 1979 Mystic and Poet
STRANGE VAGABOND
who knows not what to seek...
God's love within you is your native land!
Then seek none other,
For you are homeless
save God keeps your heart.
(To a wandering Jew 1958)
STRANGE VAGABOND
who knows not what to seek...
God's love within you is your native land!
Then seek none other,
For you are homeless
save God keeps your heart.
(To a wandering Jew 1958)
HERMIT RULE 13:
Value solitude - the hermitage serves the world in its prayerful separation.
Learn to watch and pray until your life itself becomes a prayer to God.
Value solitude - the hermitage serves the world in its prayerful separation.
Learn to watch and pray until your life itself becomes a prayer to God.
January 13, 2026 at 11:37 AM
HERMIT RULE 13:
Value solitude - the hermitage serves the world in its prayerful separation.
Learn to watch and pray until your life itself becomes a prayer to God.
Value solitude - the hermitage serves the world in its prayerful separation.
Learn to watch and pray until your life itself becomes a prayer to God.
MORNING PRAYER:
Living Lord, through your continuous presence in us
you draw us out of ourselves,
and come to give us new life.
You have confided to us as God’s poor,
a mystery of hope and inner light.
In you, we find a peace of heart
that touches the depths of the soul.
Living Lord, through your continuous presence in us
you draw us out of ourselves,
and come to give us new life.
You have confided to us as God’s poor,
a mystery of hope and inner light.
In you, we find a peace of heart
that touches the depths of the soul.
January 12, 2026 at 7:58 AM
MORNING PRAYER:
Living Lord, through your continuous presence in us
you draw us out of ourselves,
and come to give us new life.
You have confided to us as God’s poor,
a mystery of hope and inner light.
In you, we find a peace of heart
that touches the depths of the soul.
Living Lord, through your continuous presence in us
you draw us out of ourselves,
and come to give us new life.
You have confided to us as God’s poor,
a mystery of hope and inner light.
In you, we find a peace of heart
that touches the depths of the soul.
PRAYER:
When the mystery of God becomes tangible through the simple beauty of symbols, when it is not smothered by too many words, then a common prayer, far from exuding monotony and boredom, awakens us to heavens joy on earth.
When the mystery of God becomes tangible through the simple beauty of symbols, when it is not smothered by too many words, then a common prayer, far from exuding monotony and boredom, awakens us to heavens joy on earth.
January 12, 2026 at 7:45 AM
PRAYER:
When the mystery of God becomes tangible through the simple beauty of symbols, when it is not smothered by too many words, then a common prayer, far from exuding monotony and boredom, awakens us to heavens joy on earth.
When the mystery of God becomes tangible through the simple beauty of symbols, when it is not smothered by too many words, then a common prayer, far from exuding monotony and boredom, awakens us to heavens joy on earth.
PEACH TREES - BLOSSOM & FRUIT - OLD FRIENDS
In sleep and dreams I am a traveler, scenting fragrant air, drinking in pastel colours, and Fly to Paradise to listen to heavenly choirs and meet old friends...
Listen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ijb...
In sleep and dreams I am a traveler, scenting fragrant air, drinking in pastel colours, and Fly to Paradise to listen to heavenly choirs and meet old friends...
Listen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ijb...
Fly to Paradise – Stellenbosch University Choir
YouTube video by Stellenbosch University Choir
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January 12, 2026 at 7:36 AM
PEACH TREES - BLOSSOM & FRUIT - OLD FRIENDS
In sleep and dreams I am a traveler, scenting fragrant air, drinking in pastel colours, and Fly to Paradise to listen to heavenly choirs and meet old friends...
Listen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ijb...
In sleep and dreams I am a traveler, scenting fragrant air, drinking in pastel colours, and Fly to Paradise to listen to heavenly choirs and meet old friends...
Listen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ijb...
HERMIT RULE 12.
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil...
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil...
January 12, 2026 at 7:04 AM
HERMIT RULE 12.
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil...
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil...