My Birthday Wish for Clare’s Chapel of Hope
By Sr. Laurel Lloyd-Jones lfsf Recently I celebrated becoming an octogenarian and enjoyed sharing my birthday with our family and many cherished friends both old and new. Despite my request for no gifts several people gave me some funds tucked into cards. After...
First Working Bee at Elm Grove Sanctuary – By Pete Swan
After just a few months here and a lot of hard work, self-doubt and feeling overwhelmed, God came through with a strong response this weekend. Remembering Sister Laurel’s message, ‘Elm Grove will not fail’, we got to experience a taste of this. We had the blessing of...
The Gods of the Seasons at War! – By Peter Sands
Photo by Peter Sands Given that SE Australia has just been subjected to mid-April highland snow, followed by a record-breaking May heat-wave I revisited the following I first wrote in April over 20 years ago ... Autumn has been warm, a lingering of summer beyond the...
Finding Hope in Difficult Times – By Tony Agnew
“Come, Come, Whoever you are Ours is not a caravan of despair Come, Come, Whoever you are This caravan has no despair. Even though you have broken your vow perhaps ten thousand times Yet come again, come again, whoever you are whoever you are, come Wanderer,...
The crew of Planet Earth – By Jake Lloyd Jones
Christina Koch of the NASA Artemis crew spoke recently about participating in the longest voyage ever made by human beings. She said it truly taught her the meaning of what it is to be part of a crew, “A crew is a group that is in it all the time, no matter what, that...
The Great Work of Love: Chaos, Justice, and Divine Evolution – By David Oliphant
This is the title of a post that Laurel invited the Board of EGST to read as the new year begins. She wrote: It speaks to what both Edwin and I know that Elm Grove Trust was called to express through our action as a charity. I believe that we lived the truth being...
You’re a holy place – By David Oliphant
Angela recently came home from choir practice with a new song they had learnt as a warm up song. I was immediately engaged because of the line ‘You’re a holy place’, but also because it puts our planet ‘out there’ in front of us as a Whole to think about and marvel...
Blessing Ceremony for New Stewards of Elm Grove Sanctuary – the Swan Family
We have some wonderful news to share, especially with those who first became connected from having spent time with us in the Snowy Mountains of NSW at Elm Grove Sanctuary, Goobarragandra near Tumut, so many years ago. This began a love affair of wonderment with this...
Encountering Elm Grove… By Alice Williams
Alice Williams is the (Former) Secretary, Brungle/Tumut Local Aboriginal Land Council. A small piece of paradise is what most visitors to Elm Grove feel when they encounter the area for the first time. Our people occupied this little bit of paradise for many thousands...
Pope Francis – Inspired by the adhan – Islamic Call to Prayer
St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) viewed all of creation as interconnected through a shared Creator, calling natural elements and creatures "brother" or "sister". His spirituality saw the material world not merely as resources to be used, but as a "joyful mystery"...