For those of us in Australia, the concern this weekend is for the federal election. I rarely watch any news on television, because I know that the media are like sharks, feeding on any fears that arise. A recent exception was just after Brexit (the exit of Britain from the European Union), mainly because my husband, Jon, is a Brit, and he was keen to hear what was happening. There
“There’s no time like the present,” my mother used to say, when she wanted me to do something that I was procrastinating about. Perhaps what she really meant was: “There’s no time but the present.” My lessons from A Course In Miracles have taught me that, for our real spiritual selves, the present is really all that exists. I had learned previously that God is in the present moment, but
How would you like to be remembered? A lot of my writing in recent weeks has been about the fact that we are all one: we are all part of the one God, the one creation, the one community on Earth. Despite our different religions or different beliefs, we all have the same needs, not least of which is love. Although we are all one, and can think of ourselves
My recent Chaplaincy course caused me to consider the differences between the various religions, which has led me to ponder the differences between all of the cultures of the world, and the billions of individual humans which constitute those cultures. With so many different influences on our lives, it is no surprise that the differences between individuals of one culture or religion, and those of another, appear to be vast. And yet,
Reincarnation is a concept so naturally and intrinsically a part of many religions, that their proponents might wonder how anyone could think anything else. Hinduism and Buddhism are two such religions. My understanding of their beliefs is that we create everything in our lives through our thoughts, words, and actions. Our karma is the consequences of these thoughts, words, and actions, and reincarnation is necessary for us to resolve the