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. ...
Yes, you are in service – but what does it mean? Often it is misunderstood, for in truth it is much more about being than doing.The spiritual Law of Service says that it is all about living, being and working in the world with an awareness for the needs of others, a wish to do your best and without attachment to getting personal gain or benefit from it. Keep it simple and remember, with a loving heart whatever you do you cannot fail. ...
The underlying dilemma confronting European leaders is more fundamental than resolving a debt crisis: it is about how far the EU is a true community founded on values of altruism and mutual co-operation, or a quasi-dictatorship of absolute rule. The choice between autocracy and democracy became apparent publicly in the way that the fiscal difficulties […]
Astronomers and scientists have been left scratching their heads over the discovery, by NASA's Kepler space telescope, of over a thousand planets which could be habitable, like our own Earth. Kepler 22-B is of particular interest, having a mild climate and the likelihood of water, but because it lies some 600 light years away the […]
A bridge is a potent spiritual symbol, reminding us of life and death, of cycles, infinity, limitlessness, dimensional crossings, transition, endings and beginnings, new horizons and adventure, and journeys into the unknown. A bridge is sacred. A bridge is movement and change: if you cross a bridge, any bridge, you are moving from one reality […]
Jacques Delors' pessimistic review of the mistakes, political and fiscal, in the past running of the Eurozone were among the first words I heard today. The once-powerful and still influential ex-European Commissioner is right, of course, and also in his view that the present problems are unlikely to find an easy solution, if at all. […]
It is heartening, as world leaders continue to perpetuate the mirage of economic normality even at the expense of planetary considerations, to learn that scientists increasingly are using evidence from the world of nature to direct their work, such as gauging the imminence of global storms and geomagnetic storms in space. A recent article refers […]
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the sacrifice of environmental pledges for the perceived sake of the British economy in yesterday's Autumn Statement has gone unremarked. On coming into office, the new coalition government here promised to be "the greenest government ever", but there has been little sign of it. I was saddened to hear the Chancellor say, in […]
