this is for all the hurt and the hoping

this is for all just as we are

the tales and the tunes we share

are meant for the holding

and give us new soul to walk

however far

excerpt from “however far”

No (wo)man is an island, a poet once wrote (kind of). Thursday’s Child was born of such truth. Our songs try to express in ways which are honest the hopes and heartaches that are part of all our lives. So, too, the poetry, stories and reflections we share through worship, workshops and now this website.

In giving voice to such honest reflection we hope that ‘far to go’ people (and we count ourselves among them) might know they do not journey alone.

It feels an enormous privilege: to sing and know that folk are hearing their own stories in the fragments we write. What we do becomes, then, less about performing and more about being together on the road. That’s what we hope our writings might become for others: songs that sustain, songs for the road.

Welcome to “however far”…