“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 past midnight tonight it will be the full moon and the time of the last of the great spiritual festivals of the year - the Christ Festival. It is the time when humanity comes together in an act of invocation to God, praying for fellowship, human and spiritual unity. It is about community consciousness […]
As I write, a tanker is leaking thousands of gallons of oil into the seas off Singapore, and arguments are becoming more forceful between different countries over drilling rights in environmentally pristine parts of the world. Another way of expressing it is that they are arguing over the life-blood of the planet, and so oil […]
One of my relatives is in hospital at the moment, hopefully not for much longer. She has been quite poorly at times, however, and it has been necessary to keep closely in touch with the different points of contact there for some days. It has been remarkable (or perhaps not so!) that almost every conversation […]
In a passing conversation yesterday I was told about someone who was visiting this wonderful, natural part of Wales where I live, and who came across a certain beautiful, shy and universally loved wild mammal, one of just a few surviving in Britain now, and rarely seen. She decided she wanted to take it back […]
I felt a strong sense of deja vu today when I heard that scientists have discovered how to change DNA to make artificial life. The implications are enormous, because it gives scientists and users the ability to create a tool both for benevolent use like consuming cancer cells or oil spills, and also for malign […]
It is wonderful how rapidly old mindsets are being replaced by a more compassionate and pragmatic approach. I am thinking in particular about recommendations announced today in the UK that doctors should discuss openly the wishes and needs of terminally ill patients with them, so that, for example, they can die at home if they […]
