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    Slow Wisdom
    Slow Wisdom
    Slow Wisdom
    Ebook56 pages17 minutes

    Slow Wisdom

    By Craig A Roberts

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    Slow Wisdom - A Forgotten Virtue.Slow wisdom - a forgotten virtue: The everyday relatedness towards others steeped in restorative grace and justice. Craig Roberts applies an ancient lens of “Slow Wisdom” to the institutional landscape that underpins Aotearoa New Zealand. The poet contemplates the engrained hardness of heart by leaders and their followers which pervades against slow wisdom.

    ...Out of wounded histories,
    fractious neighbourhoods,
    trust restored in fiery places...

    Contents

    One Seventeen
    Out of this Abyss
    The Bridge
    Inside Out
    Endless Circles
    Fallen Numbers
    Adam Sràid
    Eve Weeks
    Jacob’s Tears
    Wrath
    On Blades of Grass
    Acknowledgements

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCraig A Roberts
    Release dateDec 18, 2022
    ISBN9780473661830
    Slow Wisdom
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    Craig A Roberts

    Grey Warbler Press publishes works by New Zealand poet Craig A. Roberts. Craig lives between the mountains and the sea, on Kapiti Coast, Aotearoa New Zealand. Craig weaves poetic tales and meditations as he explores God’s love and pain for people and Creation. He holds a PhD in leadership studies.

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      Slow Wisdom - Craig A Roberts

      Preface

      Vocation as Resistance - how do you talk about things that seem out of the ordinary? Like an ongoing prayerful dialogue with the Holy Trinity on living vocation in a torn world. How can this be best told? For these are dialogues of pilgrim-journeys. Journeys wrestling with God's pathos and promise for humanity and creation. For me the bardic tradition tells it well.

      What takes place when spirit-led vocation becomes a way of life? Unexpected journeys following the Holy Trinity down unimagined and daunting paths of possibility. This is told in four parts: God moving through us; God moving in us, God moving before us and God moving beyond us. As you read between-the-lines may you commune with the Holy Trinity.

      Vocation as Resistance is dedicated to those who journey.

      Notes on Language

      Two Scots Gaelic phrases are used. When spoken they are beautiful sounds which invoke the wonder and the numinous of God. The phrases express the multi-folded layers of meanings both direct and subtle.

      Anam-charaid in Scots-Gaelic (anam ćara in Irish) for soul friend. In these writings Anam-charaid is Jesus Christ.

      An Gèadh Fiadhaich, Scots-Gaelic for the wild goose. A Celtic name symbolising the wonder of the Holy Spirit who moves untamed by humanity.

      Writings also use two words from New Zealand Maori:

      Ruru, also known as Morepork, small New Zealand owl.

      Kohekohe, the queen

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