Looking for inspiration?

Noisy gig over, it is on to Just this Day and there is just one last job to do; editing and finishing the programme.  So, I am looking to all my spiritual heroes, Sister Wendy Beckett, the Dalai Lama, the Pope, various people who have a vision of the real stature of a person.  There are the obvious ones and then there are those we meet in our everyday lives who inspire us through their actions.  We can't change the external things in our lives, we can't stop typhoons or halt disease, we can't easily stop someone intent on burglary or violent crime and we will never know for certain if our meditation will affect another person.  But perhaps we can know that if we meditate faithfully and with the aim of clearing the heart of troubles caused by anxiety or hurt or jealousy or lack of love, we will succeed even if it is just a little by a little, bit by little bit.  The great heroes and heroines of this way of meditation and contemplative prayer are all inspired by love and their inspiration and their lives filter through to us as examples.  So they are all going to find their way into the St Martin-in-the-Fields programme just by having inspired me to put it together.

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