In the Courtyard with Margaret McGee -- New liturgy, engagement with scripture, and careful attention to everyday life

By Margaret D. McGee

"Teaches that haiku, like prayer, allows us to spend 'time with the moment itself' ... instilling a desire and ability to write what is essential and understand how it entwines with our individual spiritual practices."

— Sheila Bender, author of

A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief

Also available:

Sacred Attention:
A Spiritual Practice for Finding God in the Moment

“Beautiful, passionate and very personal…

reminds us again of why we need to be aware of the present moment: that’s where God is.”

— John Lionberger, author, Renewal in the Wilderness: A Spiritual Guide to Connecting with God in the Natural World

Stumbling Toward God:
A Prodigal's Return

“An offbeat, engagingly written, appealingly uncertain spiritual memoir.” -- Publisher’s Weekly

About the Courtyard

Hello, I'm Margaret D. McGee. Here In the Courtyard, you'll find prayers, meditations, and other writings of mine organized by the seasons of the church. I add new writings regularly. more...

Margaret’s Bench February 2010

All through childhood I thought I’d be a teacher when I grew up, except for one moment of epiphany at the age of about ten, when I had an surprising vision of myself as a writer in my middle years... more...

Lent

Lent is a season for reflection and returning to God. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Lent extends for six weeks and ends in Holy Week, the week before Easter... more...

Epiphany

Epiphany season begins on January 6 and ends on Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent. An epiphany is a revelation – a sudden, often-intuitive sighting of the essence that lies behind the world’s mask... more...

Workshop Haiku February 2010

A hardy group of poets gathered at the East West Bookshop in Seattle to write haiku inspired by the season. For our muse, I brought green fronds of red cedar and hemlock, ironwood branches dripping with teal-colored lichen, sword fern dotted with spores, and salal both green and red... more...

Lectio + Haiku February 2010

I met with twelve others in the Leffler living room on the campus of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle to write haiku inspired by themes of the Epiphany season. The focus of our inspiration was a poem by Jalaluddin Rumi.

The Dream That Must Be Interpreted

This place is a dream.
Only a sleeper considers it real... more...

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