Welcome to the latest newsletter from The Distant Spire.

This week’s musical offering is called Believe And You Will See, and as the name suggests, is an encouragement to step into the realm of faith and thereby be enlightened and awakened to what God is wanting to reveal to us.

Recorded in my home studio, this instrumental piece features ethereal pads, serene guitar swells and a gentle arpeggio for a tranquil relaxing mood. I invite you to listen to the music as you pray and reflect, and be lifted up in faith.

I recommend headphones or full range speakers both for listening quality and to provide some isolation from the noise and business so you can more easily enter into a quiet time with the Lord.

Believing Is Seeing

Is your faith low, or even non-existent? Do you have questions or doubts? Faith is a gift God has given us, and through our response in prayer we draw nearer to the Great Initiator, who wants us to know his love for us in an ever more profound and deep way. It is in prayer that God reveals himself as a personal and loving Father. It is in prayer that we grow in understanding, love and patience. By making that step of faith in prayer the truth becomes more real and we see more clearly.

The following passage is from The Glenstal Book of Prayer:

“Prayer is the movement of the Holy Spirit in the human heart through which God reaches out and embraces human beings. It is a duet of love in which the action of the Spirit inspires and sustains us in the darkness of faith.

It is an inward call from Christ who dwells within the depths of the human soul, and who longs to be known and loved there. It is the exciting adventure of the search for God’s presence and the endless joy of rejoicing in it when it is found.

It is the growing perception of the infinitely gracious, infinitely merciful Source, the Father who reveals the beauty of his face to the inner eye of the heart and the sweetness of his voice to the inner ear attuned to listen”.

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Some Additional Notes

The studio is seeing plenty of action lately as I continue working on new music for the forthcoming album, and refining some older tracks that lend themselves to quiet listening and reflection. There will be a number of individual pieces of music for meditation on streaming services soon to add to the tracks already available. They will not be part of an album, but provide the same (albeit mostly shorter) moments for reflection and prayer.

I am rediscovering the joy of listening to the radio lately, specifically classical and jazz programs on ABC Radio here in Australia. It’s a nice way to spend a quiet evening listening to a concert, and unobtrusive enough to have in the background while reading.

The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton is my latest read, and I must say it is a compelling story, well written and thoroughly engaging. Merton was a twentieth century monk who had the most amazing life. By the age of ten he had already lived in numerous countries and spoke multiple languages, which is more than most of us do in a lifetime. More captivating still was his search for God, authentic faith and becoming his true self. Unputdownable – I highly recommend it to catholic and non-catholic alike.

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God bless you and keep you,

D.A SigleyThe Distant Spire

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