By: Sheridan VoyseyStop. Breathe. Interrupt the rush. There is deep meaning to be found in our everyday lives, but we won’t find it if we don’t pause to reflect, listening for the Voice that can only be heard in stillness.This is video five in a special series adapted from my new gift...
By: Sheridan VoyseyIn his famous poem The Four Quartets, TS Elliott says “We had the experience, but missed the meaning.” How true!Too often life can become one long series of unrelated events – a conversation here, an appointment there, walking the dog, working through our to-do...
By: Sheridan VoyseyTwenty-something anniversaries later, I sometimes look at my wife Merryn and wonder how this marriage of ours works. I’m a writer and speaker, Merryn is a statistician. I work with words, she works with numbers. I want beauty, she wants function. We come from different...
By: Sheridan VoyseyFive hundred years ago the Renaissance brought an explosion of art, science, geographical discovery and religious ideas into the world. What would it take to see a new renaissance (rebirth) of wisdom, creativity, community and faith in this coming decade?That was the theme I was...
By: Sheridan VoyseyWhat are you running from? Where are you running to? This short story will have you longing for the freedom of wide open fields.Drawn from the new gift book Reflect with Sheridan, this is the first in a five-part video series exploring the book’s nine themes: joy,...
By: Sheridan VoyseyWhat would you say to your seventeen year-old self if you met them face to face? One strange afternoon I had such an experience.Drawn from the new gift book Reflect with Sheridan, this is the third of a five-part video series exploring the book’s themes of joy,...
By: Sheridan VoyseyEarlier this year, before COVID made things complicated, I attended a thanksgiving service for a much-loved member of our church. We lost Eileen to cancer at just 68 years of age. As the service began, more chairs had to be put out to accommodate the number of people arriving....
By: Sheridan VoyseyA vivid sunset, a misty horizon, the vibrant life of a colourful coral reef. In the presence of such beauty could we in fact be glimpsing something more? Drawn from the new gift book Reflect with Sheridan, this is the second in a five-part video series exploring the...
By: Sheridan VoyseyIn a celebrity-driven age like ours it’s easy to applaud those who work on the top deck—the public faces of business, government, medicine, entertainment—while overlooking those who work in the galleys and engine rooms that keep the ship running.Are you a back...
By: Sheridan VoyseyA few years ago, researchers did a fascinating experiment. Wanting to know when people would step in to help a stranger, they asked participants to watch a woman named Elaine experience a series of mild electric shocks. The observers were told a little about Elaine beforehand,...
By: Sheridan VoyseyIf there’s one member of our household taking these uncertain times in his stride, it’s our black-furred, silver-pawed cockapoo, Rupert—whose playfulness is getting him through heatwaves and lockdowns alike.Rupert’s joy seems based on the fact he...
By: Sheridan VoyseyI thought I was getting through this COVID crisis OK—until a couple of weeks ago. That’s when chores started taking longer to do, broken by spells of staring at walls.Articles took longer to write as I doodled instead of typed. I stopped posting on social media...
