Thought for the Week: Expediency

Joyce Trotman reflects on expediency

by Joyce Trotman 27th March 2015

As a part of my growing up I was made to memorise Psalm 34 of the Old Testament. Verse 14 reads: ‘Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it’ (the italics are mine).

I would ask myself: How do you pursue peace? The operative word being ‘pursue’.

I read in my Celtic Daily Light about the mystic Teilo. When asked ‘What is the greatest wisdom in a person?’ he replied: ‘To refrain from injuring another person when one has the power to do so.’