1) I believe anything is possible if we are willing; "I can't" is actually "I won't" in 'most every situation ( Read more... )

This month's Observer's headline article is titled "I'm not religious I'm spiritual ( Read more... )

My "Observer" arrived in the mail this morning, and as always happens when the "Observer" arrives, I put down everything else I'd been doing to skim through the magazine (editorial, letters, headlines, Q&A), before settling in to read the meatier stories ( Read more... )

This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild
Had Mary been filled with reason
There'd have been no room for the child.

-- Madeline l'Engle


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Tomorrow Christ is coming, as yesterday he came;
A child is born this moment, we do not know its name.
The world is full of darkness, again there is no room;
The symbols of forgiveness are stable, cross and tomb.

-- Fred Kaan, 1966This carol, written the year of my birth, is my favourite of the carols sung during Advent ( Read more... )

He is Alpha and Omega; He the source, the ending He.Mouse's world is very black and white and quantifiable. A soul, a God, life after death; these things are not quantifiable. I will not make my son mouth my beliefs if they are not truely his, but sometimes our differences are a sharp relief. Particularly at Christmas. For him, about gifts; for ( Read more... )

T'was in the moon of wintertime, when all the birds had fled.The world is white, the trees bowed with snow and ice. Wind carries the white plumes of the neighbours' chimneys flat against the rooftops ( Read more... )

Thank you, Lord, for what you've done for me ( Read more... )

He is Risen indeed. Hallelujah.


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There are spaces in chronology that I find very difficult. The pauses between the ending of one event and the beginning of the next. Holy Saturday has always been such a time for me; moreso as I've grown older and into more responsibilities; there are groceries and dishes and laundry and cleaning the house for company tomorrow ( Read more... )