Category Archives: Stories

Ruth Harvey’s final postcard from the lands now called Australia reflects on how lessons from the other side of the world might apply to the Iona Community.

Ruth shares reflections on lessons from birds and the people she met in Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra) and Warrang, Eora Nation (Sydney).

Ruth Harvey’s fourth postcard from the listening pilgrimage on Naarm, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung Country (Melbourne), GunaiKurnai Country (Gippsland) 

‘…grant us times of
deep-dreaming-rest,
of reverie and revelation,
where pathways to peace may open wide,
and roads to reconciliation will unfold.’
Read Ruth’s third postcard from a Listening Pilgrimage.

‘Gather us in to listen deeply, share intently, understand so fully that our differences become starting points and our points of intersection become rivers of connection flowing more deeply than all that divides…’ Read Ruth’s reflection in full in the second postcard from a Listening Pilgrimage.

‘If day one was a day of opening our hearts to the pain of the past, day two was a moment of healing amongst friends and strangers. ‘ Ruth Harvey shares reflections from the first stage of the Listening Pilgrimage in the lands now called Australia.

This beautiful image was commissioned by the Wellspring Community for the Listening pilgrimage. Find out more about the artist behind it and the Listening pilgrimage here.