VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well and healthy. Happy Fathers Day to all You fathers. Today the wind is battering the house with rain. The brown grass outside is gradually turning green. Leaves are flying everywhere. And I can see the family car is white – it has been brown with dust these last weeks … Continue reading A Prayer of Thanks for Rain
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your loved ones are well and healthy. As the snowdrops and daffodils appear in the countryside We can be thankful that the winter is gone. The war in Ukraine seems to be dominating the news cycle, and so it should. Just when We thought there would be peace across Europe We are faced … Continue reading A Prayer for Peace
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that You are well and that Your loved ones are healthy and happy too. This week I would like to pray for peace. As violence once again sweeps the Middle East and We see conflicts across other parts of the world continuing, We should feel grateful that in our country there is relative peace and calm. … Continue reading A Prayer for Peace
BY JAMES MELVILLE “When facts change, I change my mind.”~ John Maynard Keynes Where is the bipartisanship, respectfulness, balance and empathy in our political discourse? We are moving apart rather than walking towards each other. Increasingly, it seems that on almost every political issue, binary choices of division are being made. This is increasing the levels of division and hatred. Instead, we need to find … Continue reading More Bipartisanship, Less Tribalism
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust my weekly prayer finds you well this week and that your families are happy and healthy. It is not my role to criticise economic or political systems. However in Venezuela how can one come to any other conclusion? What we see now as violence prevents a convoy of aid reaching Venezuela from Colombia are the last … Continue reading A Prayer for Venezuela
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that You and Your families are healthy and well. This week I would like to draw Your attention to violence and its futility. On a day when two bombs at a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines have killed 27 people and injured dozens more; the morning after a man was slashed in the face … Continue reading A Prayer for Peace
BY RUCHIRA GHOSH Just a tiny little world So replete with meaning Everyone desires peace Men, women, children Birds & animals seek peace In their own little ways There is peace in humming of bees Murmuring of brooks, rivulets Snowy clouds in the azure sky Usher in a sense of peace A walk through a forest glade Midst profuse greenery & foliage Evokes serenity and … Continue reading Peace
