April 5, 2022 Courage, and the doors it opens I contemplate the flower. Yet more than delighting in its beauty today, I find myself admiring its courage. Truly, here …
March 29, 2022 The good-enough messiah I meet her near the station, stumbling a little. I steady her. ‘This little scrap of flesh,’ she says. ‘How …
March 22, 2022 What is mindfulness? What is mindfulness? Opening up the shop in the morning and turning the key, I am aware that I am …
March 21, 2022 Needed: hopeful imagination In 587 BC, the Babylonians assaulted Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple. For the Israelites, it was the end of the …
March 16, 2022 Beyond depression there is a heaviness about depression that needs lightening a fog that needs clearing a surliness that needs dissolving a …
March 8, 2022 On being Putin Dictators must have control. It’s what they desperately need. The need for control grows in their lives, like weeds left …
March 4, 2022 Gethsemane I hope you found flowers in Gethsemane; and help in the landscape of night. With accusation and threat weighing heavy, …
February 28, 2022 How shall we relate to anxiety? How shall we relate to anxiety? Perhaps as a disappointed lover. Anxiety arrives, unbidden; in fact, like a house guest …
February 26, 2022 A picture of virtue I am watching the road and this is what I see. The cat gives way to the old lady because …
