Spiritual Questions- How to get my baby to stay asleep?Can’t it be unbearable if your eight month old baby repeatedly wakes up at night? You get tired and stressed and the relationship with your partner suffers. Unfortunately for the child, sleep problems that began in infancy can persist for many years. So it is important to teach the baby how to get to and stay asleep. Continue reading → […]
- Your brain is spamming you‘My feet look stupid’. You just had a thought. You had a message in your head. No big deal we get messages all the time. How do we survive all these message? Easy – by filtering. Another watch-able video from OffThe LeftEye. … Continue reading → […]
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Life’s Journey
Life is a journey we all have to take. Some paths are smooth, others fill us with pain. There are forks in the road. We choose which one to take, but there will be times when we make a mistake. … Continue reading
A story to warm your heart.
You wouldn’t carry on doing the hard work of writing your novel if you realised your pen wasn’t working and nothing was showing on the paper. But that exactly was what Trish Vickers was doing. She is blind and her … Continue reading
How do I balance my own needs with those of others?
We don’t choose our neighbours, nor our bosses and work-mates, not even our relatives. Sometimes these people are uncomfortable to live with, difficult to talk to, or they oppose our hopes and aspirations. How do you deal with the unwelcome … Continue reading
How can I face personal tragedy?
Although in his sixties and retired, Jack still felt young. His whole life revolved around doing handyman jobs in his own home and in the homes of his three daughters. He greatly enjoyed the company of his family and their appreciation. But recently … Continue reading
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Carer’s Prayer
When I have a grumpy day It’s only fair I have to say, The grumpiness that people see, Is not the real me, It’s only my way of trying to say, I am tired, fed up, I feel unloved, And … Continue reading
A World Full of Millionaires
If everyone was a millionaire the world would grind to a halt. Why tend the fields, to grow the crops, to feed the people, when I have all that money. Why dig the coal, to light fire, to bake the … Continue reading
Mary’s Suitcase
Mary had reached the end of her earthly life. As the cord was cut she awoke to find herself in a brilliantly lit room and by her side was a suitcase. Looking at the suitcase Mary was hesitant because this was … Continue reading
Counting our Blessings
How often do we (in Britain) take the simplest things in life for granted. After a good night’s sleep in a warm bed, we get up, turn on the tap. There is water to make a cup of tea, hot … Continue reading
The Passing
Society says we are supposed to grieve when someone dies but it is not always the case. I was with my grandmother the day before she died at the age of 89, but my experience was a wonderful one. It … Continue reading
Ethical parking control?
Want to do what you think is right despite what your boss tells you? Are you willing to risk losing your job for your principles? Traffic warden Hakim Berkani tried to issue parking tickets in London’s Kensington and Chelsea only … Continue reading
Stella English
Stella is known as a winner of BBC tv’s The Apprentice Her childhood was a painful one. “It was quite a lonely hard time for me.” Her father had abandoned her at a young age, leaving her mother Drusilla unable … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Sugar, fostering, gangland, hope, Stella English, Thamesmead, The Apprentice
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Quibbling about Parables
I am having a spot of bother with parables – nothing serious, you understand; nothing to worry about. Some of them, however, do seem just a little dated. There is that famous puzzle about the workers in the vineyard, for … Continue reading
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Tagged good Samaritan, Jesus, parables, prodigal son, religious stories, spiritual stories, spiritual values, Swedenborg
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Learning
There was a day when I could run and jump Branches and clouds were in my reach. There was a day when walking slowly and seeing the world in detail was my achievement There came a day when slowly was … Continue reading
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Looking for Peace at Challice Well
Whilst on a recent visit to south-west England on holiday we had a stop-over for a couple of nights at Wells in Somerset near to Glastonbury. I had read and been told about the Challice Well in Glastonbury, beautiful gardens … Continue reading
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Enoch
Enoch Walked Steadily With God And Then One Day, He Was Simply Gone; God Took Him. I walked today and went for miles, Cultivation that Should be routine. It is spring and the sun is out, Making the temperature … Continue reading
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House of Reeves
The furniture store had been going for 144 years. Known as The House of Reeves it was a well known building in Croyden — until it was burned down in August by rioters. How could this family business possibly have … Continue reading
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An Ancient Prayer
Give me a good digestion Lord, And also something to digest Give me a healthy body, Lord, With sense to keep it at its best. Give me a healthy mind, O Lord, To keep the good and pure in sight, … Continue reading
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How to find adventure?
Ever gone travelling off the beaten track? Young people may do this before they embark on a new career and those recently retired from an old one can also seek somewhere different. They go off to exotic locations to discover what is there and at the same time find out something about themselves. Perhaps we all need a thrilling time occasionally, to get away from the hum-drum aspects of everyday life. Travelling is not an option for everyone. However, the journey can be found in other ways.
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Good Samaritans
Aaron Biber is aged 89 but that hasn’t stopped him raising £35,000 for the benefit of small traders whose businesses were wrecked in the Tottenham riot. Thanks to all the good Samaritan well wishing donators. Shiva Kandish nearly cried when his … Continue reading
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Social work working
Stephen writes that when he was 14 years old he became depressed because he had severe acne and other children picked on him at school. “I took an overdose of sleeping tablets and was admitted to hospital, this was the … Continue reading
Writing people off
Cheryl and Michael are a lesson to us all about not writing people off. Still going strong … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheryl Holden, Michael Fernandes, teenage parents
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Cats Don’t Get It!
Lucy seeks and shows affection in the way she nuzzles up to me. But she has her faults like clawing the soft furnishings. I haven’t seen any signs of what I would call a social conscience in her makeup. No public prosecutor would take an animal to court on a criminal charge. It’s otherwise with human beings. We also have a will but is ours not one based on rational understanding? For unlike animals have we not a higher degree of mind that can see beyond the things of the senses? Continue reading
The Trouble With Me!
The trouble with me is I’m always to know; I’m in everything I do and I’m everywhere I go. I’m there when I wake, I’m there when I sleep; I’m there when I laugh and I’m there when I weep. I’m in what … Continue reading
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Tagged egoistic, heavenly Father, Jack Dunnion, Lord, prayer, religious poem, talking with God
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A terrible wrong
If someone does us a terrible wrong, we want to tell the person how we feel. That is how Joanne Nodding felt even though she was a victim of a horrendous crime. Most rape victims never want to see their … Continue reading
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Tagged emotional control, emotional survival, forgiving, Joanne Nodding, moving on, rape victims, rapists, restorative-justice
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Illusions that destroy hope.
No future? Lost hope? Can’t see how things might improve? When we get into this negative state of mind, we lack energy even to do the easiest of things and nothing gives us much pleasure.
For Macbeth, life seemed to have a future — one of power and status. Yet he also felt such things were insignificant. For he said:
“Life is but a walking shadow… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury – signifying nothing.”
Perhaps he was feeling that only what the world could offer were mere illusions. Continue reading
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Tagged alienation, hope, illusion, meaninglessness, self-condemnation, spiritual, Swedenborg, unconscious
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What is wisdom?
We all put our foot in it from time to time, some of us more than others. I’m thinking about social gaffs, ill-judged decisions, or reaching an unfair conclusion about someone. I happened to notice a woman popping something into her mouth and tossing aside a piece of what I took to be a sweet wrapping paper. I voiced my indignation not rudely but admittedly with a strong note of irritation in my voice. Immediately her companion launched into a hostile … Continue reading
What should we look for in 2011?
It’s going to be a tough year. V.A.T. rises to 20% on New Year’s Day. The prices of food, electricity and gas have just been increased. Wages and pensions remain fixed. Gloom and doom are all around in abundance! What … Continue reading
Sharks are dangerous
According to the Perth Now News, a man bravely tackled a shark to save the life of a young woman. Trevor Burns a middle aged tourist was enjoying a snorkelling trip off the coast of Western Australia, when a 10 foot Great White sank its teeth into 20 year old Elyse Frankcom. She had been hosting a swim-with-the-dolphins tour when the terrifying brush with death unfolded. Surgeons had to extract teeth from Ms Frankcom’s wounds and Continue reading
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Tagged bravery, great white, sharks, snorkelling, swim with the dolphins
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Hope for humanity?
You’ve just had your laptop stolen. You are cross. These thieves are a ruddy nuisance. Then you remember you haven’t got a data back up. This happened to an unnamed university professor in Sweden. Only in his case the computer stolen contained ten years worth of work. Anyone would be devastated. So we can imagine his feelings when only a week later he received an envelope in the post containing a Continue reading
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Tagged hope for humanity, laptop theft, returning stolen goods
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£10000 hero
Several British news media have reported that a 22 year old was awarded £10,000 for helping to convict a rapist, and then donated this amount to the victim. Lloyd Gardner saw a Crime Watch programme on TV and recognised two women he knew and this led police to the rapist, Polish national Jakub Tomczak. Mr Gardner felt he didn’t deserve the reward and that he wanted the money to help the woman rebuild her life. Continue reading
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Standing up to yobs
You are on a train and 30 drunken football fans are hurling abuse at you. What do you do? WalesOnline reported that Lisa Robinson found herself in exactly this situation. After she had stepped in to try to prevent another passenger from … Continue reading
Good begat good
PoW Heinrich Steinmeyer (now aged 84) was captured after D Day and imprisoned near Comrie, a Perthshire village. Locals were so kind to him that he stayed there for seven years after the War and still keeps in touch with … Continue reading
What makes us happy?
Imagine you were phoned up out of the blue by a researcher from Harvard University and asked what you were doing, how were you feeling and what you were thinking? Research reported in the journal Science found that’s what happened … Continue reading
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Tagged absorbed, active, busy, daydreaming, happiness research
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Shocking view
Ever looked at Google Street view on the internet and seen yourself on the screen? That’s what happened to Bob Mewse, aged 56, although he didn’t recognise the morbidly obese man, with a shirt hanging over his huge stomach as … Continue reading
Serenity prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as … Continue reading
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Tagged Reinhold Niebuhr, serenity prayer, spiritual courage, wisdom
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Lines from William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. from Auguries of Innocence William Blake
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Mystery repairman
Ever get grumpy seeing broken fences and benches in your neighbourhood? According to the Oldham Evening Chronicle, a local cyclist called Stephen Rimmer aged 37 had got fed up about this sort of thing too. Only, he decided to do … Continue reading
Cost free shop
There is a village in Yorkshire near the town of Skipton. All was well until its only shop closed down two years ago. Time for some creative thinking by the councillors. So with no costs they opened a tiny ‘open all … Continue reading
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Tagged community spirit, community trust, honesty, Skipton, telephone kiosks
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How can I find stillness?
Pretend to yourself that around you is a white sandy beach. It is early in the morning and you can see the sun rising slowly. You just about notice its warm rays. You are feeling comfortable and pleased. You can … Continue reading