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Monday November 9, 2020 – beginning at 7 p.m.

Seven months into the Covid pandemic, the impact and challenges have shifted. Initially, we have may have changed some of our routines or adjusted to having kids at home and thought—“I can do this.

There are times in life where I have been acutely aware of the blessings in my life. These times have come when my heart is wide-open to love–like when I celebrated my wedding and the birth of my children.

Take a moment to imagine a world where mercy was the overarching theme, the guide to our interactions with all living things and with the environment.

In my Faith Forum thought for this past Saturday I wrote about the Spiritual Discipline of seeing through the lens of love – and made reference to the fact this that I am not talking about a romanticised form of love, but a hard edged kind of love th

I’m prone to see the world in a certain way – hopefully a positive, optimistic, warm way.

Most people think that human beings are fundamentally competitive, and they may be right if we look at human history. Industrialists and economists believed that Darwin’s theories justified an economy of vicious competition and inequality .

We sometimes spend hours talking to people without it amounting to anything concrete. Those conversations have the potential to build community and friendships, and we need to have them to feel we are part of the society.

The airplane was coming closer. It seemed to hang in one spot for a long time, the pounding rhythm constant. Then I saw a green lawn marred by a blackened circle of burnt disfigured earth.

As I get older, I am more mindful of the end of my physical life. There are so many things that I am grateful for: I do not worry about work and money, and I live a retired life of my dreams.