30/10/2025
In prayer and meditation I listen deeply in an attempt to make sense of this crazy world.
My soul whispers, ‘it’s all a lack of love’
When we take love away the gaping hole left behind, needs to be filled and the lower qualities rush in … fear, anger, selfishness, sadness.
Yet there isn’t a lack of love, just like there isn’t a lack of wealth or food in the world. It’s an unfair distribution, it’s a ‘logistics’ problem as some of us have closed our hearts and locked the doors.
Love makes its way onto our planet through our open hearts. Without us the world becomes loveless and that makes it a dangerous place.
The love I speak of it’s not just grand gestures. It’s the simple everyday love.
The thank you and the smile as you get off the bus.
It’s the opening of doors, stepping aside, the helping with prams, smiling at babies, time given to the elderly & saying ‘hello’ on the street.
These things make our communities safer and they open hearts.
I’ll march on the streets and I’ll fight for a tenderness revolution.
Yet it’s not a fight, it’s the opposite, it’s a disarming, a stepping forward and sometimes it’s, an ‘I’m sorry’
The revolution is quiet. It doesn’t need words it needs action for love is a verb. It’s something that we do.
I’ve spent the last few days in my spiritual community in Wales. I’ve been held in the most perfect way. I’ve been fed, listened to, hugged and even ‘walked’ out in the valley. I’ve laughed belly laughs and I’ve cried healing tears. My 50th birthday was celebrated some more whilst friends of over 25 years spoke openly of the beauty they see in me. And they do all of this because of the beauty they carry in their own hearts.
And if there are tears guarding the heart’s door, I invite you to let them lovingly fall, sit quietly and listen to your soul.
I’m trying hard each day, to listen to mine.
She whispers and she says, everything is going to be fine, you’ll see, in fact it’s going to be more than you ever dreamed it could be, trust me.
