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The Old Wisdom by environmentalist Jane Goodall, born on this day in 1934, “When the night wind makes the pine trees creakAnd the pale clouds glide across the dark sky,Go out my child, go out and seekYour soul: The Eternal I. For all the grasses rustling at your feetAnd every flaming star that glitters highAboveContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 3rd April”

“When one becomes worthy to hear the song of plants, how each plant speaks its song to God, how beautiful and sweet it is to hear the singing!It is good indeed to serve God in the middle of them all, wandering alone over the fields between growing things.All the speech of the fields then entersContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 2nd April”

“Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 1st April”

“One moment I saw a river flowing gently.The next, all bridges washed away.One moment I saw a bush flowering.The next I saw no rose or thorn – just branches.One moment I saw a cooking fire blazing.The next just ashes, no fire or smoke.Pleasures spread like poppies.You seize the flower, the blossom drops.We are like snowContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 31st March”

From The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year by Caitlin Matthews, “Birds and other animals begin to choose their mates as the growing year burgeons strongly in the strengthening sunlight. The green fire that runs all over the earth is sparked by this very sunlight and the deep germinating power of the earth.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 30th March”

Mettika from the Therigatha (Songs of the Nuns), poems composed by early female followers of the Buddha, “Though I am weak and tired now,And my youthful step long gone,Leaning on this staff,I climb the mountain peak.My cloak cast off, my bowl overturned,I sit here on this rock.And over my spirit blowsThe breathOf liberty.”

Psalm for Body Beginnings by Celeste Snowber, “Each day the petalsunfold their face to the skyan act of surrenderopen hearted to breathefor a new dayAwait each breath as if it was pristineyour lungs living in the glory ofinhabiting air for the first timeeverything is old todayeverything is new todayall your issues remainfamily, finances, relationships, workContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 28th March”

“Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.” UU Minister Forrest Church (1948 – 2009)

A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost, born on this day in 1874 “Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;And give us not to think so far awayAs the uncertain harvest; keep us hereAll simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,Like nothing else by day, likeContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 26th March”

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.” Percy Bysshe Shelley, expelled from Oxford University on this day in 1811Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 25th March”