Pondering the ominous alerts of impending storms and the need for preparedness led me to wonder what was the most precious thing in my life that I would hate to lose. It was a difficult question: the answer, I realised, was my home and all the life inside and outside it so there is no need for the escape grab bag I am encouraged to have ready. It may be a question you ask yourself on this day of warnings. ...
Spiritual leadership is much needed at this time, and so to learn that Pope Leo needs no further treatment for cancer is happy news in bleak times, whatever religious calling you may have. While his is seen as the face of God by many, do not forget that you too are God’s child and image on Earth. ...
Late last night I found a stag beetle tucked into a chair in my bedroom. As the light came on it stirred and woke, its head crowned with long antennae bowing, indeed, like a stag. It crawled onto a tissue I offered it and I placed it outside on the windowsill where it ambled away into the dark night.How it reached my room I do not know and never will, and the significance is a mystery – but significant it was, and I am grateful. ...
The polarisation of the world is starkly visible as hate challenges love, as peace is threatened by violence.This is a pivotal time but however bleak the outlook the Light always is there to encourage us forward towards our promised future. Nothing is stronger than the love of God. ...
We talk to God all the time and He answers always; often we do not know or hear.In this moment what would you like to say to Him? What would you ask if you had only one question left for the rest of your life?Find it, know it, ask it and your life will be changed, so important will it be. ...
Helmand Province in Afghanistan is the dangerous centre of British military operations, and the place where hundreds of British and other soldiers from elsewhere died or were wounded badly because of the Taliban.
The Lord Rennard affair has the appearance of a rather bad play, part farce, part drama, part tragedy depending upon if and how you are involved. It is badly written, not very credible and the main dramatis personae increasingly are unlovable as the show develops, and for all these reasons it is easy to forget […]
Planetary life, and your life, depends on the mood of the Sun, and, apart from rare incidents such as asteroid collisions, every change of any significance to Earth has been due to some form of solar activity. When our Sun behaves oddly, it serves us to take heed.
Robert Gates has warned the UK that reducing our military capability will jeopardise our “special relationship” with the US and limit our ability to be a major influence in the world. Does his case for war matter, I wonder? And is it true?
The subject of fracking has left the front pages, for now, but the announcements and discussions of Monday have left me troubled. Government and industry supporters have spoken airily of the financial benefits and the American experience, of the limited impact on communities and the resulting energy revolution, but their accompanying admissions, which largely went […]
The Aurora Boralis, or the Northern Lights, were visible, and present, over parts of Britain this weekend, because a geomagnetic storm drove the aurora structure south, very unusually. The scientific explanation for the Aurora Borealis is that, when atoms in the Earth’s atmosphere collide with particles from the Sun, shimmering green particles of light are […]
