NeuroDivine

Welcome to NeuroDivine—a space where the sacred and the strange meet; where the clinical and the contemplative sit side by side; where Irish rain and inner weather belong to the same landscape.

I’m Michael McFarland Campbell—a writer, hymnwriter, and musician living in Ireland. This blog is a living archive of work shaped by experience: autism, HIV, kidney failure, and a long familiarity with the rhythms of dialysis. Alongside these runs a deep current of Benedictine spirituality—a way of attending to life that values stillness, repetition, and the quiet work of becoming.

Here, pilgrimage does not always look like a journey to distant holy places. More often, it unfolds in ordinary and difficult spaces: hospital corridors, waiting rooms, early mornings, and the hush of a chapel when the world feels too loud.

NeuroDivine gathers together several strands of writing:

• Hymns—texts written for congregational singing, shaped by scripture, landscape, and lived experience
• Reflections—short prose pieces rooted in faith, illness, and attention
• Poetry—where language reaches for what cannot easily be said
• Resources—material offered for use in worship and devotion
• Notes—glimpses of process, practice, and the work behind the work

At its heart, this is a place of integration—where body and spirit, illness and prayer, structure and creativity are not held apart, but allowed to speak to one another.

If you find something here that resonates—a line, an image, a hymn you can use — you are very welcome to take it, use it, and share it. This work is written to be lived with, not simply read.

Books & Collections

Some of the hymns and reflections shared on NeuroDivine find a more settled form in published collections.

These works are written to be used—in worship, in reflection, and in the quiet spaces where faith takes shape over time.

Sacred Imagination, Wonderfully Wired

Many of the images that accompany my poems and hymns are created with the assistance of artificial intelligence—used here as a humble instrument in the service of the Creator.

As someone wonderfully wired, I understand the varied ways our minds perceive, feel, and imagine not as accidents, but as expressions of the imago Dei—the image of God reflected uniquely in each of us.

I approach this work prayerfully, shaping each image so that it serves the truth, hope, and beauty carried in the words. In this meeting place of neurodivergence and faith, technology becomes simply another tool through which sacred imagination can flourish—helping the heart to see what the soul is singing, and inviting others into deeper worship, wonder, and grace.

A growing collection of these images is now gathered at Received Light, where the visual work can be explored more fully alongside the texts that inspired it.

Copyright

All posts, stories, poems, and hymns published here are
© 2025–2026 Michael McFarland Campbell. All rights reserved.
Hymns published on this site may be used freely for local parish worship with attribution.