Late last night I found a stag beetle tucked into a chair in my bedroom. As the light came on it stirred and woke, its head crowned with long antennae bowing, indeed, like a stag. It crawled onto a tissue I offered it and I placed it outside on the windowsill where it ambled away into the dark night.How it reached my room I do not know and never will, and the significance is a mystery – but significant it was, and I am grateful. ...
The polarisation of the world is starkly visible as hate challenges love, as peace is threatened by violence.This is a pivotal time but however bleak the outlook the Light always is there to encourage us forward towards our promised future. Nothing is stronger than the love of God. ...
We talk to God all the time and He answers always; often we do not know or hear.In this moment what would you like to say to Him? What would you ask if you had only one question left for the rest of your life?Find it, know it, ask it and your life will be changed, so important will it be. ...
“Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now how comfortable it will be to touch theearth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless freshets of wind?”Mary Oliver, from Song for Autumn ...
May your prayers be answered well today. It cannot happen unless you ask – and there always is something to pray for if you look around and within you. ...
Self-acceptance and self-expression are at the heart of being spiritual, and they are the key to the purpose of being human; the current PIP implant issues highlight this. The controversy over breast implants and, today, other "beauty enhancers" such as wrinkle fillers has demonstrated how many thousands of women have felt the need to change […]
I have a number of friends who live just to the west of me on the other side of the Cambrian Mountains in this special place of Wales. One of them, unexpectedly, called me last night to say she was witnessing a procession of moving stars. Together, she at her back door and me sitting […]
For some twenty years the words "Stephen Lawrence" have evoked, inevitably, a reaction in the listener, maybe shame, maybe sorrow, maybe regret, maybe anger. The legacy of a teenager who died while waiting for a bus in London so long ago is the reminder to each of us who is old enough to know, about […]
It is surprising that researchers are surprised at the possibility that Earth may have had two moons. How would they feel about the idea that we have two suns, I wonder? Mars is the only planet known, now, to have two moons, while Jupiter has sixty four and Mercury and Venus are believed to have […]
Opportunities for spiritual growth come constantly, gifts from Spirit which often we fail to appreciate through the distractions of being human. This period of new year, reflection and resolution is just such a time. The original meaning of "resolution" was, in Latin, to do with releasing and letting go rather than the context in which […]
Spiritual growth comes in many forms and from many sources, and learning how to become more spiritual can be through negatives as well as positives. To witness momentarily what seems to be unspiritual and to see it for what it is can help us evolve more profoundly than hours spent with a saint. Listening to […]
