It was Father's Day yesterday, at least, here in the UK. A day when I think about how lucky I am, and a day when I think back to how lucky I was. This is yesterday's daily email from Fr. Richard Rohr’s Daily … [Read more...]
Beautiful Forgiveness
June 19, 2010 By
When I was preparing my post about The Value of Forgiveness, published on Wednesday, I came across a few things that illustrate the beauty of forgiveness which I found really inspirational. I thought they would be good … [Read more...]
The Value of Forgiveness
June 16, 2010 By
Is there someone who has done you a wrong, in some way, and whom you just can't forgive? Have you, yourself, done things that you can't forgive? In this post from Lou Tice at the Winners Circle, he talks about the … [Read more...]
God’s Help
June 12, 2010 By
Stories like this one, about Reverend Scott Schmieding, give me a tremendous amount of hope. Scott wasn't cured in the sense of his body being fully restored to the health he enjoyed before his cancer. But he was very … [Read more...]
How does divine love differ from human love?
June 7, 2010 By
I mentioned yesterday about talking about "love" a lot on this blog: and here it is the subject of another post already. This post is another one of Fr. Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations. In this one he talks about the … [Read more...]
Mother Teresa
June 5, 2010 By
I have been reading a little about Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who is better known as Mother Teresa. She was an incredibly inspirational lady to so many people throughout her lifetime. There is a good page about her on … [Read more...]
Hope and the Environment
June 2, 2010 By
Do you feel that there's nothing you can do, personally, to make a difference to the environmental problems the world faces? With all that's happening off the coast of Louisiana just now it's probably easier than ever to … [Read more...]
Seaside Wisdom
May 29, 2010 By
Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday. It's probably fair to say that the Doctrine of the Trinity is not the easiest to understand. I came across this story of an event that is supposed to have happened to Saint Augustine. I can't … [Read more...]
How does awareness help us understand suffering?
May 24, 2010 By
Today’s post is another one of Fr. Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations. In this one he talks about how our suffering is the same as everybody else, and that of Jesus on the cross, and not separate from it. How does … [Read more...]
God’s Power in Action
May 22, 2010 By
I came across this story recently. No idea about how true it might be, and in a way hope it isn't. But I can certainly relate to the inner struggle that this man went through. There was a time I would've gone in without … [Read more...]
Andrew Gosden (now 18) has been missing from his Doncaster home since 14 September 2007. The search continues.
Elizabeth Jackson on 