Great Events of Mind and Heart

Two red kites are soaring above me, playing on the thermals, while a hen harrier is hovering over the copse nearby looking for food. It is warmer now, and the song birds are beginning to explore nesting sites and even gather moss for lining. It feels ageless and timeless, nature reacting to the seasons as it has done for ever.

As I share their reality here in the sacred place of Wales, the dramas and tensions of the Middle East seem far away. It is as if a play is being enacted and we, the audience, will emerge from our places of observation to a different world, another reality. Part of the sense of illusion, perhaps, comes from the fact that the events in Egypt and nearby countries are karmic but man-made, deriving from history but based on opinion, emotion, attachment  - an individual and group mental process. In saying this I am not saying it is right or wrong, it is how it is, part of the process of change.

Meanwhile, events deriving directly from nature dominate Australia again as an unprecedented cyclone heads for Queensland as I write. This does not feel like a play but a reality which I can feel with my heart. The situation is created by nature for a reason but nature, including man, suffers from it. This is why, as the world watches Egypt still, my focus today is on Australia. There, but for the grace of God, go you and I.