Alive to the thrill Of the wild. Meet the dawn On a mountain. Wash your face In the morning dew. Feel the favour of the earth. Go out...

‘…to love also means to obey, lend an ear and open one’s heart to the other, make a place for them, renounce the pretence of going it...

Finally on my way to yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the untended wounds the red and purple scars those...

In these times when anger Is turned into anxiety And someone has stolen The horizons and the mountains, Our small emperors on parade...

Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, like the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl? Who has it, and who...

“Make of yourself a light” said the Buddha, before he died. I think of this every morning as the east begins to tear off its many clouds...

Thank you to everyone who has responded over the past week to my invitation to let me know of things for which you would like to offer thank

I have seen it standing up grey, Gaunt, as though no sunlight Could ever thaw out the music Of its great bell; terrible In its own way,...

‘Most high Glorious God Enlighten the darkness of my heart And give me True faith Certain hope And perfect charity Sense and knowledge,...

‘Be strong and let your heart take courage All you who wait for the Lord’ (Psalm 31:24) *** Image: Little bee-eater (Merops pusillus...

‘Lord catch me off guard today Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain So that at least for the moment I may be startled into...

‘May your prayer of listening deepen enough To hear in the depths the laughter of God’ John O’Donohue Image: A Rabbi at Prayer, 1891,...

Most High, all powerful, good Lord, Yours are the praises, the glory, the honour, and all blessing. To You alone, Most High, do they...

LOVE AFTER LOVE, Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own...

Give me my Scollap-Shell of Quiet, My Staff of Faith to lean upon; My Scrip of Joy, Immortal Diet, My Bottle of Salvation;

Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift

Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight

Busy with very urgent jobs I forgot one also has to die irresponsible I kept neglecting that duty or performed it perfunctorily as from...

'What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared with what lies within us’ Ralph Waldo Emerson ‘One of the highest...