Inevitably what we come to believe is heavily influenced by our own experiences. It would be surprising and disappointing if it were not so. Because no two people are alike, a…
‘I… greeted all of us gathered here today as one tribe, what I called Te Haahi Tuuhauwiri. This is the Māori name for Quakers in Aotearoa. It translates as “the faith…
Our registering officer arrived at the Meeting House for the wedding followed closely by her husband, who was loaded down with ledgers, blotting paper and pens. ‘I’m her…
I don’t know, but perhaps I am an agnostic. Not that I take my uncertainty all that seriously, for I hold that what we do in this world is more important than what we believe.…
1 February was quite a day! I went for a sigmoidoscopy to check for diverticulosis. This revealed a normal, healthy sigmoid. Then my life fell apart.
Firstly, put on your reading glasses to prevent your vision clouding over. These glasses change the word God into the word Life with a capital ‘L’. The glasses will also work…
There is a chamber of the mind prepared for me. When I am ready, willing to surrender. When I am quiet, I may enter there To find a place of stillness, a place already occupied By…
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