Good morning Last year, I passed an old man on Westminster Bridge who was playing the mouth organ next to a sign that said: 'No milk in the community hall. No heart in Parliament.' When I asked him why he was playing what seemed like happy songs to such a statement,...
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BBC Radio 4 Prayer for the Day, 14 February 2017
Good morning Today is Valentine's Day and I would like to give thanks for the deeper romance that comes from a long held, often fought for, love. C.S Lewis described it as being face to face. Intimate and intense. A modern therapist said the 'ideal' is followed by the...
BBC Radio 4 Prayer for the Day, 13 February 2017
Good morning 'My love is like a red red rose that's newly sprung in June.' It is the day before Valentine's Day, when tradition encourages us to dive into the unknown and join a powerful creative force of nature. We are encouraged to be blind-sighted, the card...
BBC Radio 4 Prayer for the Day, 11 February 2017
Good Morning As we head into Valentine's week, we will be surrounded by ideas of love and I'd like to begin with the love of home and family as equal to romantic love. C.S. Lewis writes about it as one of the four great loves; 'Storge', the nurturer. As enduring as...