Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“I lift my eyes to the hills.From whence will my help come?My help comes from the creativity of the cosmosWhich is making the heavens and the earth.It comes also from the core of myself.It is my guide and hope.On this path I am safeWhatever befalls me.” Psalm 121 The Hills by Christine Robinson Image: NewContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 19th October”

“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.” Pico Iyer, travel writer

“It is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.” Saint Ignatius of Antioch (died c. 107), Feast Day today

“It will be a marvellous thing–the true personality of man–when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flowerlike, or as a tree grows. It will not be at discord. It will never argue or dispute. It will not prove things. It will know everything. And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 16th October”

“I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man’s spiritual growth… As human beings, we are partContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 15th October”

“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world – and the category of truth versus falsehood is among theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 14th October”

“I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.” Paul Simon, singer-songwriter, born on this day in 1941

“The unseen walks with us from birth to death. To some of us it is closer than to others, and those to whom it is closer reveal it to the rest. But to the most earthy of this earth earthy, it is the unseen itself that speaks. It has many voices, many interpreters. The Heavens,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 12th October”

International Day of the Girl Child “I was told God wore robes and a frown.That He sat high and heavy on a golden thronewith a finger forever poised over the red button of smite.I was taught that holiness was male, that mercy came with conditions,that my softness was sin and my wildness worse.They offered meContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 11th October”

World Mental Health Day “vulnerability doesn’t mean telling others what happened to us from across a cafe table or from behind a microphoneand then going home from the experience feeling just as alone as you did beforevulnerability means allowing your human heart blanket to get sewn to other heart blanketsit’s about connectionwe don’t share forContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 10th October”