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“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”

“1st business of life, to love the Lord our God with heart and soul, and our neighbor as our self… These two great commandments, and upon which rest all the Law and the prophets, cannot be narrowed down to suit us but we must go up and conform to them. They proscribe neither nation norContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 9th October”

“I don’t really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit thatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 8th October”

“I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, “Now is that political or social?” He said, “I feed you.” Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.” Archbishop Desmond TutuContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 7th October”

“Sometimes, too, we went out in the rubber boat to look at ourselves at night. Coal-black seas towered up on all sides, and a glittering myriad of tropical stars drew a faint reflection from plankton in the water. The world was simple – stars in the darkness. Whether it was 1947 B.C. or A.D. suddenlyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 6th October”

“I walk the unfrequented roadWith open eye and ear;I watch afield the farmer loadThe bounty of the year. I gather where I did not sow,And bind the mystic sheaf,The amber air, the river’s flow,The rustle of the leaf. A beauty springtime never knewHaunts all the quiet ways,And sweeter shines the landscape throughIts veil of autumnContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 5th October”