About the two most important words in the whole of the bible, in my view, of course

 As I constantly say to friends and family, I've probably written this before:

the two words are ''Our Father''

How so? Well, Our is all of us folk on earth, past, present, and to come, so that's good.

And as to Father, bearing in mind that we're talking about the infinitely best father we could ever imagine, this Father is warm, protective, loving, caring, forgiving. Everything, in fact, we could ever wish for in a father.

This is a father who knows everything about us but also understands, even when we don't understand ourselves. He knows and loves the good in us and forgives our failings and failures.

We, of course, can only receive that forgiveness when we know we need it and make amends for whatever caused it.

How consoling is that!

An open prayer for Bill Clinton

Dear God,

Please inspire Bill to tell the truth, whatever it is, however damaging personally it may be, 

and astound the world. He would be remembered forever if he did so.

Amen

I am praying for him.

God's love is the power which fires the engine of the universe

The soul is the well-spring of creativity

About what we and others do

 It doesn't matter what others do.

What matters is what we do.

About the rock of love

Love is the rock of life

to which we should all cling.

About Beethoven's creativity, given his troubled life

 How could a man like Beethoven, 

given his life, troubled in so many ways,

create the exquisite, quiet, ecstatic beauty

of the second movement of the Pastoral Symphony?

Only through the creativity of God, flowing through his veins,

and into the crevices of his mind, spilling over and onto

the lines, bars and staves of the musical manuscripts.