Author Archives: Laura Dobson

Feast Day of St Lucy “Flame of loveIrradiate my heart.Flame of beautyIllumine my soul.Flame of wisdomExalt my mind.Flame of courageImpassion my will.Flame of peaceSteady my being.” Andrew Harvey

“The mystical will always be with us – the more it is discovered, the more inexplicable it will become. The new movement, the signs of whose progress can be detected everywhere, will express all those things that for a generation have been suppressed – the whole of that important mystical facet of human nature. ItContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 12th December”

International Mountain Day “Nature is united with divine love, to which the will of the soul is also joined. Nature is well ordered and asks nothing that is against the laws of the divine. Love says to us, “There are those who sit on the mountain above the winds and rain. They are not ashamedContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 11th December”

“That God is one, and that all the works and the feelings He has called into existence are ONE; this is a truth (a biblical and scriptural truth too) not in my opinion developed to the apprehension of most people in its really deep and unfathomable meaning. There is too much tendency to making separateContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 10th December”

“The mind ascends to God not through the accumulation of knowledge, but through the letting go of all that it knows.” Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – 384)

“May the tree of our life be firmly rooted in the soil of love. Let good deeds be the leaves on that tree; may words of kindness form its flowers; may peace be its fruit.” Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, also known as Amma

“What is a blessing but a rain of gracefalling generously into the lives of those in need;and who among us is without need?May the Spirit touch your spirit in this midmorning pause.May this day be a pathway strewn with blessings.May your work this day be your love made visible.May you breathe upon the wounds ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 7th December”

“We notice and remember features about walking journeys that are not apparent to us when we drive. The spirit of the land cannot speak to us directly when we speed through it; it cannot catch our eyes through the outstretched branches of the trees, or in the gleam of hidden water, or in the deer-brownContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 6th December”

World Soil Day “’Do you pray?’ a good friend asked me recently. ‘I just wondered where you get your hope from?’ It’s a bit of an odd question to ask someone who doesn’t believe in God… ‘I don’t pray in the way that I grew up praying but I suppose I do pray,’ I tellContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 5th December”

“Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.” Edith Cavell (1865 – 1915), nurse executed for helping Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium, born on this day