“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. ...
There is a saying that life imitates art just as art, often, imitates life. Since I was a little girl I have wondered how far life is a creation of our imagination and how much reality life has in actuality. I learned today that a new, revolutionary computer game has been devised which is […]
The British Isles are small in terms of land mass, and so it is extraordinary sometimes how different one part is from another. I live in the West, and as I write there is bright, bright sunshine, blue skies, and warrmth. Having had heavy snow for three days, overnight it is gone and daffodils have […]
I have talked before about this time of change, of moving forward and of determining what to retain and what to release in our lives. Sometimes it is necessary to take life in order to enable life and this applies in micro and in macro ways. It can be as simple as thinnig out a […]
I wonder how many of you who read my last commentary felt the magic within you as well as around you? It is there. When you (without ego) sense and connect with that magic, that is when abundance flows effortlessly and miracles happen. It cannot happen when you are in separation from yourself, and […]
For everyone who reads this blog today, there is beauty and magic somewhere around you. You may have to look for it to see it,or it may be a gift you are aware of thankfully already, but it is there. The world around you is a world you have created. It represents what is occurring […]
In very cold or snowy weather, the birds that suffer the most are the insect eaters, like wrens or treecreepers. Without their food source, they perish. Many of you will have direct experience of this hard British winter. Here where I live we had deep snow for over a month and bitter temperatures, and local […]
