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. ...
As a great storm hovers over much of Britain, many people will remember tales of tempests of the past, such as the hurricane which hit the Welsh Valleys in 1913 with 160 miles per hour winds, or the even greater storm of 1703 which caused more damage and loss of life in the south than […]
US surveillance on rival countries is centre stage at the moment, as Angela Merkel and other EU leaders express outrage at the idea that their conversations have been intercepted by American eavesdroppers, but the truth, reluctantly but increasingly acknowledged, is that many developed countries do what they can to learn what others are planning, or […]
Until recently, few people realised the extent of the tragedy that is child abduction. A few names are remembered, like Madeleine McCann and Ben Needham, but it was the reaction to the finding of little Maria, believed to have been taken by a Roma couple, that revealed how many children may have been stolen from […]
Beyond El Dorado, reminded me about the cosmic power of gold and how far it has been forgotten, when once it was the most important aspect of civilisation. I would love to see the magnificent gold headdresses and ornaments of Columbian culture thousands of years ago, the lip and ear jewellery which covered the face […]
