Using quiet time this morning prayerfully whilst waiting to take Buster to have wound stitched.

Buster had a tussle with a large foreign mastiff bitch yesterday evening and a deep gash was made on his neck. We took him to the emergency vet practise in a small village a few miles away. Unfortunately (when you hear that does your mind anticipate the worst? Unfortunately they said for us to bring him back today as they want to clean it up and stitch it under general anaesthetic. So he has to have been without food for twelve hours.So in about an hour and fifteen minutes we shall set off again.

   So long as little children
     are allowed to suffer,
There is no true love in this world.

                                                   Prayer
    Deepen our vision, Lord, that we may see your world and its creatures
                          shot through with the light of your glory.
                                                                                          Barbara Mosse
 The Third Sunday of Lent.


I trust that this will be a good week for us and that we can all start it by saying: I will love myself as a precious, vital and beautiful thread in the tapestry of God`s creation; but I will also recognize that I am just one among many, and that my well-being cannot be separated from the well-being of the whole. I will glory in the astonishing fact that I have been created at all. I will recognize that the possibility of `me`, of cells combining into life to form this particular one-off arrangement of the human pattern, is inrcedible and unrepeatable and profoundly beautiful: present in the mind of God from the very first moment of creation.

And then I will lie back and be at peace with myself. With and luck, and if there isn`t anyone about, I will probably doze off and enjoy a barely earned forty winks. And I will be smiling.

     Jesus said, I thank you Father that you have hidden
     these things from the wise and the intelligent and
     have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, tor such
     was your gracious will ... Come to me, all you that
    are weary and are carrying heavy burdens and I will
    give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from
    me, for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will
    find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
    burden is light.
                                         Matthew 11.25, 26, 28-30

This is all for today, apart from just to say, if you can find a minute or two to just sit quietly with your mind empty of thoughts, then thanks.
                                                    Yours faithfully bro Peter