“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. ...
Just as we have spikes of events in our personal and collective cycles, so also does the world of nature. Summer visiting birds spend weeks of their short lives flying from Africa to the UK and Europe in spring, returning there in the autumn - major events in their peaceful world of feeding, breeding and […]
A new survey indicates that three quarters of the British people do not believe taxpayers' money should be used to pay towards the Papal visit to the UK in a few days' time. It is an interesting conundrum in an unusual situation. Official visits by Heads of State occur regularly, arranged to strengthen ties with […]
A new survey indicates that three quarters of the British people do not believe taxpayers' money should be used to pay towards the Papal visit to the UK in a few days' time. It is an interesting conundrum in an unusual situation. Official visits by Heads of State occur regularly, arranged to strengthen ties with […]
In spiritual terms an invocation is an intense prayer, a calling upon the divine and also it can be a summons. The Great Invocation is a mantra channelled through Alice Bailey in 1937, intended to be used by all so inclined to invoke the return of the Christ or World Saviour, the Maitreya if you […]
On the day that Tony Blair’s memoirs are published, many people like me may be wondering, “what if?” What would have happened if the then Prime Minister and his Chancellor had been able to work together harmoniously and professionally during all those Blair years in power? It is clear now that plans for far-reaching reform […]
Many people will be glad to say goodbye to August in 2010, for it has presented challenges to many people. It has been a month of opportunity and reward also, and you may look back on it and see it as a time when important decisions that you took then brought about huge change in […]
