Laurence has started carving! go to http://www.tindall26.fsnet.co.uk/schpage.htm

Let us sit down soon to eat
with all those who haven't eaten:
let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in the lakes of the world,
set up planetary bakeries,
tables with strawberries in snow
and a plate like the moon itself
from which we can all eat...

 Some words from Dr Martin to inspire your thoughts and prayers - "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.... Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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"The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907

 G. K. Chesterton

 

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 Some ideas for a discussion.

    If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide. Mahatma Gandhi

    There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela

    In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities. Mark Twain

    Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease. Heraclitus

 

   Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley

Possible pilgrimage in prospect!