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. ...
At 1711 GMT tomorrow, 21st December, winter will begin. It will be the hour when the Sun stands still and, for a moment, time stops: it will be the Solstice. This is the day when light is scarcest and darkness lingers in the longest night as the Sun waits to be reborn, and for a […]
The December full moon that falls today deserves attention in her own right, but she is overshadowed, not dimmed, by the imminence of the Solstice, the closeness of Christmas and the waning of the year.
The arguments over EU immigration are spreading far beyond the Conservative Party, for it is an issue which increasingly is preoccupying many EU member states, both the original 6 founder members, and the new entrants, but from very different perspectives.
I love it when nature surprises us, and she is doing so constantly in this time of change. Within a few days of learning of the remarkable coldness of Antarctica (minus 95 degrees Celsius or less, and akin to temperatures on Mars), scientists meeting in San Francisco today are presenting findings that prove that the […]
To learn today that a large area on Northern Britain, in and around Northumberland, has been granted dark sky status, was wonderful, and the news made my heart sing. The Northumberland Dark Skies Park will be the largest in Europe, and, very importantly, it will be protected from light pollution in the future.
