A Spiritual Diary (ePub)

I was born in 1938 and grew up during years of austerity, but young children took it for granted. I trained as a speech therapist and practised for three years. Later I did a two-year course in theology at College of Ascension, Birmingham, and in 1964 sailed for India. For the next eleven years I lived in Delhi and became a member of St. Stephen’s Community . This was for women workers of Delhi Diocese.Initially I was a Parish Worker for St. James Church in old Delhi, but from 1969 I served the Community itself, organising retreats and Quiet Days and managing a Christian holiday home in Simla in the Himalayas. For this work I commuted between Delhi and Simla. In 1970 I attended the Inauguration of the Church of North India in Nagpur, and went on to visit an ashram founded by Mahatma Gandhi in Sevagram.The ashram included a school run on Gandhian ideals of labour, service, and prayer. Not far away Vinoba Bhave lived in his own ashram where people visited for spiritual enlightenment and experience. I stayed there for a couple of days and had talks with at least two members of the community, as well as attending one of Vinoba Bhave's own open question times. In both these ashrams the day began very early with silent contemplation. This was a type of spiriuality which resonated with me. I was associated with the Community of the Incarnation, an Anglican women's enclosed community in Fairacres, Oxford, and one of the Fathers of the Communuty of the Resurrection in Mirfield was my spiritual director. He had encouraged me to practise the meditations of St Ignatius Loyala for a while. These involved visualising a scene from the New Testament until I felt I was there. Even at speech therapy college the day had begun with relaxation during which we were to visualise a beautiful scene and walk into it. However my favourite book on prayer was the Cloud of Unknowing which teaches silent contemplation in which one looks towards the fine point of the soul and beyond, ignoring any

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