Author Archives: Laura Dobson

Thought for the day, Tuesday 30th May “Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and findContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 30th May”

“Friends are as important as achievement.. Teamwork is the one key to success and selfishness only makes a man small.” Tenzing Norgay, who, together with Edmund Hillary, was the first man to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, on this day in 1953

Whit Sunday / Pentecost “Effortlessly,Love flows from God into humans,Like a birdWho rivers the airWithout moving her wings.Thus we move in His worldOne in body and soul,Though outwardly separate in form.As the Source strikes the note,Humanity sings —The Holy Spirit is our harpist,And all stringsWhich are touched in LoveMust sound.” Mechthild of Magdeburg

Feast of Saint Melangell, patron saint of hares “Melangell sails the Irish seato the wilds of Wales,flees a marriage and seeks timealone among a storm of hawthorn,feeds on hazelnuts and dandelions,gathers lady’s mantle each morningto sip their dew, plunges her handsin the river, freezing and fresh,sleeps on moss in the cave-close stone,delights at birdsong, seekstheContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 27th May”

“Master of the Universe, grant me the ability to be alone. May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grass, among all growing things. And there may I be alone in prayer, to talk with my Creator, to express everything in my heart. And may all the foliage ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 26th May”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well… Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 25th May”

“Sometimes, constellations land into our veins,illuminating their branching networks with ancient starfire.Stop long enough for a ray of golden lightto slant through trees and trick you out of your skin.Stay long enough for this love to catch you up.When it finally does, turn your face to beauty andsurrender to your own weeping.When that happens, theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 24th May”

“Every relation, every gradation of nature is incalculably precious, but only to the soul which is poised upon itself, and to whom no loss, no change, can bring dull discord, for it is in harmony with the central soul… Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abideContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 23rd May”

International Day for Biodiversity “On certain afternoonsthe radiance of thingsjust as they are, requiresno politics, no ideology.First it rains,then the sun comes out,the warming and coolingof the globe, the risingand falling of my diaphragm.Both Winter and SummerI am free, no more importantthan a morning glory.Most of my DNAI share with a mouse,infinitude with gnats.Endangered herdsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 22nd May”

“All gifts of nature and of grace have been given us on loan. Their ownership is not ours, but God’s.. Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership – whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honours, friends or relations, house or hall, everything. For if IContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 21st May”