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• Grace Changes Everything

  Bono, of U2 fame and warrior for solutions to global poverty said, “The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years— is the idea of grace.” I tend to agree. Its one of the religious ideas of my past that stays with me, even with new meaning. What is grace? [...]

• The Piper and the Pauper; Unconditional Compassion

  The piper was asked to play a graveside funeral service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was held in the pauper’s section of the cemetery. The piper got lost on the way to the cemetery and by the time he got there, even the funeral directors were gone [...]

• Compassion is Contagious

  The owner of a small wine-shop in a poor district of Tokyo had to be a tough man, with many people trying to swindle a free drink out of him. It was the end of the year, when debts have to be settled. Those who  collected the money owing, spend some of it on drink; those [...]

• The Mother Load

  We had a yard sale last week. A grandmother bought a bunch of furniture from us as she had family moving in. She said she would be back to haul it away. We were surprised to see her turn up in a two door convertible and even more surprised when she crammed computer tables and [...]

• Birthing A New You

  Marianne Williamson said- “When a woman gives birth, two are born; a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.” Being a mother, in all its humanity, joy and frustration, is ultimately a celebration of a new you. You will never be the same after all [...]