Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Bishop Desmond Tutu My father’s aged, yellow papers are stored in an old bookcase. Typed references and substantial achievements recorded in hand written calligraphy on parchment like scroll. Water stained apprenticeship qualifications and a Teaching …
With Father’s Day approaching, at least in America, an interlude on the fine art of Fathering is required. Fathering is a role that overwhelms you, rather than embraces you on first meeting it. Be reassured though, fathering is a skill that can be learned and children are forgiving. There are as many different aspects of …
There are times in life when films, a song or artwork speaks directly to our soul. Sometimes it isn’t even a complete text. Sometimes it is only a quote or a line that illustrates an important life lesson and that lesson sticks with us. For various reasons, I have held onto a few lines from …
“But store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal.” Matt 6:20 Even as a child many of us implicitly defined success as having strength, power and influence. We seem to instinctively want others to be like us and to accept …
The depressed brain is a time machine. It moves constantly between the past and the future looking for salvation. Lost forever from the present, it dwells almost exclusively in failures and fears. The way out is the present moment. The time machine is Mindfulness meditation. If regret is the ‘time/ space continuum’ of mental health, …
