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“The exercise of force is contrary to the principles of God’s government; He desires only the service of love; and love cannot be commanded; it cannot be won by force or authority. Only by love is love awakened.” Ellen G. White (1827 – 1915), co-founder of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, born on this day

“Befriending ourselves is the quiet revolution. It is learning to sit in the empty moments and find not exile, but home. To listen to the weeds of feeling- grief, anger, joy- as they push through the cracks, asking us to return to what is real. The body, like the earth, is always trying to rewildContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 25th November”

“At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; sheContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 24th November”

“Sheltering God,I hide myself in You.Head swathed and bowed,I listen for the still, small voice. Strengthening God,in times of tumult and terror,as the earth movesand the horizon shifts,You call me back,to shelter and to strengthen. Your song is in the sighing of trees.Your light is in flicker and spark,knowing and unknowing.Your power is in theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 23rd November”

Feast Day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music “When we pay attention to nature’s music we find that every thing on earth contributes to its harmony. The trees joyously wave their branches in rhythm with the wind; the sound of the seas, the murmuring of the breeze, the whistling of the wind through theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 22nd November”

“After tragedies, one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up. It’s not gonna be given to you because you deserve it; it doesn’t work that way. You have to imagine something that doesn’t exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space. It’s a territorial hope affair.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 21st November”

Universal Children’s Day “Who knows how to bring up a changeling generation?Wave upon wave, they come.Our fear of magic is not theirs to answer for.We had one job. We have one job. Trick babies, changing faces, changing placesall along the way.How will we know the chrysalis for the rest of their iridescent selfhood?To recognize theirContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 20th November”

“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifestingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 19th November”

“Darkness waits apart from any occasion for it;like sorrow it is always available.This is only one kind,the kind in which there are starsabove the leaves, brilliant as steel nailsand countless and without regard. We are walking togetheron dead wet leaves in the intermoonamong the looming nocturnal rockswhich would be pinkish grayin daylight, gnawed and softenedbyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 18th November”

“Orpheus, do you hearthe new sound,droning and roaring?Many now exult in it. Though the Machineinsists on our praise,who can listenwith all this noise? See, it rolls over everything,weakening usand taking our place. Since its strength is of our making,why can’t it serve usand not possess us?” Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926), Sonnets to OrpheusContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 17th November”