Love is all that matters

What’s the most excruciating pain you have ever felt in your life? I don’t mean physical pain, but the pain of the loss of a loved one. How did you get through? A while ago, the football (soccer) world was shocked and saddened by the death of the German goalkeeper Robert Enke who committed suicide [...]

It is 3 years to the day today since Tsunami caused so much distruction and death in South East Asia. On 26th December 2004, the world changed for ever. As the Tsunami waves caused death and distruction, the world re-discoverd what it was like to be compassionate. Then in 2005, Katrina devastated New Orleans and [...]

In the last two weeks, I have attended three memorial services – one for a dear friend, one for a friend’s father, and one for a friend’s grandmother. These have been poignant, moving and timely reminders of the sanctity, sacredness and also fragility of our lives. As one of the people delivering a brief eulogy [...]

How do you react when you see someone in a wheelchair? A quick shift of the eyes away from theirs or do you acknowledge them? A while back I wrote about treating others the way you want to be treated. So just what should you do when you see someone in wheelchair? Or indeed anyone [...]