“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. ...
Today is a special day, the full moon for Easter and the first of the three great spiritual festivals. In a month's time it will be Wesak, and then the Chrisat Festival at the end of May. These full moons and this time are the highlight of the spiritual year, and to mark it I […]
While all human learning and experience is for a purpose, child abuse is one of the least attractive. It was not attractive either, though on a lesser note, to see the hysterical reaction and lynch-mob mentality this weekend to the possible involvement, direct or indirect, of the Pope concerning abuse within the Catholic Church. The […]
It appears someone has come up with a way of erasing all unwanted memory, so that all that we remember is what we would like to remember. It is an interesting idea, particularly if we bear in mind that we are are here to learn, painfully sometimes as well as comfortably, and that we are […]
Some of you will have heard me talk about the true value and purpose of money - a tool on loan from God to assist our life journey, to be used wisely and altruistically. This applies to all money, including government money. There is a double responsibility here, since governments are managing money given by […]
A UN conservation committee is meeting to discuss a tricky ethical dilemma to do with the sale of ivory - currently prohibited to prevent the poaching of elephants after thousands were killed just for their tusks. There are stockpiles of ivory in Zambia and Tanzania, some of it confiscated from poachers years ago, some of […]
The equinox today, the first day of spring. Here in mid-Wales it is wet, and thankfully so. Since the snows melted in February we have had no rain, and while the weather has been truly beautiful, we had got to the point where ponds were getting low and plants and trees have not burst their […]
