“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. ...
In the early morning dawn today bats flew happily through dripping trees and wind-tossed leaves as the warm damp weather encouraged a multitude of insects to flourish and feed them. Grey and mysterious yet rich with the promise of autumn colour, the natural world rejoiced. ...
People have stopped pretending now. Certain world leaders have abandoned their claims of upholding truth and right clearly for political and personal self-service, but it will backfire. When weakness is visible vulnerability is exploited, while the pursuer of good becomes strengthened.What interesting, fragile times we live in. ...
Someone remarked to me yesterday that, standing in the middle of a busy town in Herefordshire recently, she was struck by the intense materialistic focus that was clearly apparent all around her. Though she had been there many times before, she was seeing the place and the people with new eyes, eyes of discernment. Without […]
It is always a strange time when a workshop is over. Before it there is the joyful anticipation of the coming together of a group of committed individuals for a common purpose; during it there is the shared experience of growth and learning in a loving environment and the creation of a group energy which […]
It was no coincidence that Wikileaks revelations over abuses inflicted during the Iraq War came at the time of the full moon this weekend, just as a major cycle of obfuscation and false perception was coming to an end. The fall-out will continue at least until the new moon on 6th November, and after this […]
Two red kites, among the most protected birds in Wales, are flying high above me as I write, soaring and gliding among the thermal winds of an autumnal windy day. They are graceful and serene, always above the fray. They descend to land only for food or to gather sticks and wool for their nests […]
Two red kites, among the most protected birds in Wales, are flying high above me as I write, soaring and gliding among the thermal winds of an autumnal windy day. They are graceful and serene, always above the fray. They descend to land only for food or to gather sticks and wool for their nests […]
