‘Be glad. Celebrate! Lose your mindless fear and take courage today. No, don’t ever be afraid, no matter what has happened to you before....

‘It can be important to wait at least a moment To see what was already there.’ Kenneth Koch *** Image: Grey Heron in the Parc Animalier...

One of the curious pleasures of the Covid lockdown for me has been the novel experience of "having evenings."

Cats purr on inhalation and exhalation. Cats that roar cannot purr and those that purr cannot roar. Cats start to purr a couple of days...

‘To believe that I didn’t need to reach with my bare hands anymore. To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was...

‘…you ought to look up more often, and always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of...

‘Running throughout our sacred texts, traditions and experiences is the thread of God’s desire for union, inclusivity, non-violence,...

‘If I am in Your truth, God, keep me there If I am not, God, put me there’ - Joan of Arc’s prayer *** Image: Statue of Joan of Arc in...

‘The person who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers...

‘Our ordinary waking consciousness is but one form of consciousness. All around us lie infinite worlds, separated only by the thinnest of...

‘True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone’ Thomas Merton *** Image:...

Dear Friends, This coming weekend should have seen the Final of the Lawn Tennis Association Championship at Wimbledon. But alas, like so...

I have this that I must do One day: overdraw on my balance Of air, and breaking the surface Of water go down into the green Darkness to...

To one kneeling down no word came, Only the wind' s song, saddening the lips Of the grave saints, rigid in glass; Or the dry whisper of...

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be...

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow— even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring...

Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! Lo, you were within, but I outside, seeking there for you,...

‘In Jesus, I hope for more than just a God with a face or a uniquely gifted moral teacher. I hope for a resurrection that will one day...

And having built it I set about furnishing it To my taste: first moss, the grass Annually renewed, and animals To divert me: faces stared...

I have not been to Wales for a long time. Actually, apart from a trip to Brighton Crematorium, I have not been anywhere other than Waitrose,