{"id":431,"date":"2021-06-25T09:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/?p=431"},"modified":"2021-09-26T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T15:44:24","slug":"just-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/2021\/06\/25\/just-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sister Thea Bowman,\nF.S.P.A., once observed that \u201cthe quest for justice demands that I\nwalk in ways that I never walked before, that I talk and think and\npray and learn and grow in ways that are new to me.\u201d(Quoted from Who\nShall be Welcome in God\u2019s Tent, by Andrew Remick, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I walk, I walk in Beauty, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beauty, beauty everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I walk I walk\nin Beauty, \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beauty, beauty like a prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This verse, that I\nsometimes sing when walking, is based on a Native American saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week in Canada,\nmore mass graves were found of First Nations People, buried\nanonymously in land formerly occupied by a Christian school. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I visited\na Parish church in Derbyshire where a 15th century tomb displays\neffigies of two people who may or may not be those for whom the tomb\nis named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That church itself\nis dedicated to John the Baptist, memorable for loosing his head for\nconfronting an abuse of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the time I walk in a green valley where the only memorials are in a small deserted graveyard where a few headstones remember those who laboured to build the system of reservoirs that were constructed in the 19th century to bring a cleaner water supply to the city of Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of Torrside, one of the reservoirs of Longdendale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In this small valley it is is usually easy to see beauty: it\u2019s all around me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St James church, Woodhead, where some of those who constructed the Longdendale reservoirs are remembered.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But what is beauty\nand who says?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is beauty more\neasily found in over grazed pastures and moorland managed for\nshooting imported game birds or in the withering branches of a tree\ndying slowly from an imported disease?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since walking the\nEnd to End in 2019, a feat that is to me both incredible and\ncredible, I\u2019ve had a lot of questions about walking through the\nworld around me, much of which has happened during a lockdown due to\na global pandemic. Walking is also the basis of my daily worship, the\nrhythm of my prayer and the means of processing my thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was glad to find\nthe words of Sister Bowman. I am committed to walking in ways that\nare new to me, in ways I\u2019ve never walked before as I learn, think\nand pray in these new ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From my remembered\nbible: It is the narrow way that leads to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walk with me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janet Lees 25.06.2021, in Longdendale, Derbyshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sister Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., once observed that \u201cthe quest for justice demands that I walk in ways that I never walked before, that I talk and think and pray and learn and grow in ways that are new to me.\u201d(Quoted from Who Shall be Welcome in God\u2019s Tent, by Andrew Remick, 2019) When I walk, … Continue reading “Just Walking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foowr.org.uk\/notesfrombambi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}