May peace be your virtue, may peace be your property, may peace be your prayer. May you bring peace to all those you meet, you talk to, you live with. May you even bring peace to the person you hate, your enemy. May your friends enjoy your peaceful disposition and…
A picture from one of our members in Leominster. The line is from a poem of Christina Rossetti: Love came down at Christmas,Love all lovely, Love Divine,Love was born at Christmas,Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine, Worship we our Jesus, But wherewith…
Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently…
This from an early morning contemplation on 22nd November 2020: The word ‘miracle’ comes from the Latin for ‘wonder’ and, interestingly, that arises from the same linguistic root as the word ‘to smile’. Its definition is summed up in Wikipedia as “. . . an event not explicable by natural…
I have been thinking …
I have been thinking of the difference between water and the waves on it …
A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive,
without making poorer those who give….
One of my childhood heroes was Theseus. It was Ariadne’s thread that helped him find his way of the the maze where he’d killed the Minotaur. In these uncertain times, I found this helpful.
Your ego-awareness with its underlying sense of dissatisfaction has developed over your lifetime aided unconsciously by input from parents, siblings, relations, peers, teachers, colleagues and everything that life throws at you. It’s been a lifetime habit and it isn’t going to go away with one wave of a magic wand….
