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Holy Saturday “My heart is so smallit’s almost invisible.How can You placesuch big sorrows in it?“Look,” He answered,“your eyes are even smaller,yet they behold the world.” Rumi

Good Friday “Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving… the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the sufferingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 18th April”

Maundy Thursday “The grass never sleeps.Or the roses.Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning.Jesus said, wait with me. But the disciples slept. The cricket has such splendid fringe on his feet,and it sings, have you noticed, with its whole body,and heaven knows if it ever sleeps. Jesus said, wait withContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 17th April”

“I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world, that we shall abolish wars and settle all international differences at the conference table, that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs before they abolish us. The future of the modern world demandsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 16th April”

“Even Kings and Emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare to an ant filled with the love of God.” Guru Nanak (1469 – 1539), founder and first Guru of Sikhism, born on this day

“There are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream and thought. The ways are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a person might find that she is alreadyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 14th April”

Palm Sunday Psalm 31 You as You are by Christine Robinson “I have come to you, O God, please, take me in.Hear my prayers, be my rock, my stronghold, my castle.Help me untangle myself from the web of confusions and self-deceptions that I’m stuck in.I put my trust in you—I give you my life. IContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 13th April”

International Day of Human Space Flight “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!” Yuri Gagarin, first human in space on this day in 1961

“The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 11th April”

“You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” From On the Conduct of Life by William Hazlitt (1778 – 1830), literary critic and essayist, raised Unitarian, born on this day