Good morning _'Our almost-instinct almost true:_ _What will survive of us is love.'_ When I first heard these lines from Philip Larkin's poem, 'An Arundel Tomb', I thought it was about Agape as timeless spiritual love. An old sculpture of the couple had been on top of...

Good morning One evening, a friend of mine from the Nuba mountains, South Sudan, described his wedding ceremony in symbolic detail explaining: 'We are a people who love tradition. 'It's so close to us, it's in our breath.' My neighbours like to practice Shabbas saying...

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,...

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...

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...

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...