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. ...
The Leveson Inquiry into British press standards has produced some harrowing evidence already from witnesses, and even in these early days inspires questions about judgment and non-judgment - the latter being key. Judgment has been a prevalent quality in investigative journalism for decades in the UK and many other countries, for the abuses which are […]
Another example of the changing realities of our known world was given to me over the weekend. Two weeks ago it was to do with nature, this time it was to do with time. I awoke early to hear the wind howling in the Welsh darkness and the great River Wye loud beneath my windows. […]
I have spent the last few days working with the Universal Laws again, reminding myself of their perfection as the greatest spiritual and human foundation for life there is, and ever has been. Some of the Laws are well known such as the Law of karma or the Law of Attraction. Others, such as the […]
When I became guardian of this place where I live some eight years ago, as part of my efforts to create a wildlife sanctuary I planted hedgerows around and within the garden in order to encourage birds, insects and wild flowers, and with the intent of having them laid, or pleached, when they were big […]
As the new era begins to exert its spiritual authority, nature is responding in remarkable ways. I am talking not just of climate change, which is affecting the migratory patterns of birds and animals quite significantly, but also of the unexpected and inexplicable demonstrations of the transcendental power of nature being experienced now. I was […]
One of the key principles for life is Simplicity, and the more we understand and practise it the easier our lives can be. It can be miraculous. I was reminded of this in recent days when a friend spoke of a dilemma she was experiencing with a neighbour who was increasingly negative in his interactions […]
