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“Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed butstill nothing is as shining as it should befor you. Under the sink, for example, is anuproar of mice – it is the season of theirmany children. What shall I do? And under the eavesand through the walls the squirrelshave gnawed their ragged entrances – butContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 25th December”

“Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life wears down the edges of the mind,Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day’s life,And Perfect LoveContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 24th December”

“Now, in our modern scientific age, in a manner never known before, we have created our own sacred story, the epic of evolution, telling us, from empirical observation and critical analysis, how the universe came to be, the sequence of its transformations down through some billions of years, how our solar system came into being,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 23rd December”

“A landscape can sing about God, a body about spirit.” Dag Hammarskjöld

“Light a candle, sing a songSay that the shadows shall not crossMake an oblation out of all you’ve lostIn the longest nightGather friends and cast your hopesInto the fire as it snowsAnd stare at God through the dark windowsOf the longest nightOf the year A night that seems like a lifetimeIf you’re waiting for theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 21st December”

“In silence the conscious thinking mind comes to a stop, and the invisible presence and power are given the opportunity to function. If we really believe that the kingdom of God is within, we should be willing to leave the world until such time as we can reach, touch, and respond to the Father within.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 20th December”

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, published on this day in 1843

“I cannot say where it lives, only that it comes to the heart that is open,to the heart that asks, to the heart that does not turn away.It can take practice, days of tugging at what keeps us bound,seasons of pushing against what keeps our dreaming small.When it arrives, it might surprise you by howContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 18th December”

“You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works.” Pope Francis, born on this day in 1936

“Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.” Jane Austen, born on this day in 1775