Every coin has two sides. sickness and health, sorrow and joy, birth and death, day and night, summer and winter, good and evil. live with the knowledge that life and experience are made up of both challenge and rest, struggle and achievement and that each season, each side of the coin of experience is necessary … Continue reading coin
reflections
seasons
There is a time for everything, they say. yet too often we seem to get stuck in seasons of sorrow, seasons of grappling, seasons of planning or seasons of toil. there are seasons for these things and for worry and for trouble and for philosophy and for exhaustive study. so many seasons. yet the season … Continue reading seasons
good
I believe that 98% of people are good, she said to me... then 2 weeks later she sold me out and told lies about me at a time when I thought she was a friend. the trouble is, when we make judgements about what good is, we make the judgement on what we believe is … Continue reading good
value
What value, the life of one person? is it dependant on the person's context? the person's contribution? the person's ability? or on any of the many different variables that exist between us? is it dependent on the valuer's context? the valuer's contribution? the valuer's perspective? or on any of the many different variables that exist between … Continue reading value
reached
Imagine ... if every nation agreed to, for one month in the year ... even the shortest month of the year ... set aside half of their budget for armament and instead used it to overcome world poverty ... i wonder what impact this would have? i wonder, if we actually did this, if it … Continue reading reached
what
what leads us away from kindness? what leads us away from compassion and equality and justice? what leads us away from caring and from service and from humility? what else but greed?
when love is silent
Sometimes, when love is silent, it is a good thing. it can be measured,sometimes, better in its quiet moments, seasons. it is seen better, understood more clearly, maybe even appreciated and valued a little more when it is not full in its intensity. silent does not need to mean absent. it need not mean dead … Continue reading when love is silent
ripple
You don't know what is going on in another's life. today, someone may be rude to you, they might ignore you or do something that offends you, they might look at you funny, they might make you angry and leave you feeling annoyed by their actions or looks or words. so now you have a … Continue reading ripple
me?
It was nothing new, the noise the dust the people complaining, the filth of life and no one asks, and no one questions, and everyone grumbles, and jostles and I take my lot and then some more while I am also robbed. It’s all a part of it. and then I saw his pointing hand. … Continue reading me?
direction
which to settle for ... to be known little and loved well or to be known well and loved little ... my heart ... my heart ... oh my heart ...
cracked not broken 