Let them eat cake

This one is not made by Archie

you've seen this one before

Don't you feel for Marie-Antoinette, poor spoiled Queen who, when told that the people were hungry, said "let them eat cake".  She gets such a bad press, unfeeling, cruel and then of course the people said "off with her head".  And off it came……ouch!  But, people say things from where they are; she, being well fed and cared for, couldn't imagine the awfulness of the hungry people.  We often forget to look and see what is really happening, mostly we forget to say thank you or notice when people have done a marvellous thing.  Worse still, we forget to look and see how many things are showered on us daily, the light of the sun, the sweetness of the air and the growing power of the earth.  Just remembering that as a meditation would make us look more tenderly at the world and the people round us.  And sometimes a cake gets a conversation going.  It certainly started a conversation in my head.