Marriage, Murder and Meditation! and Just this Day

You may think I am going dotty putting marriage, murder and meditation into one message but this week there were two reports.  One that divorce among the over 60's is on the rise and the second that if a married couple bicker, the risk of heart disease rises!! Click on the blue if you don't believe me! it's apparently been proved scientifically.  

from this

to this without too much stress!

Emily Johnston

Father Laurence Freeman OSB

Now, I am a married meditator! and I am over 60 and I agree with Sybil Thorndike, (famous actress mostly only known to others over 60!)  who famously said when asked if she had ever considered leaving her husband "Divorce, never!  Murder, often!  This is how the mind of a married person thinks from time to time and the older we are, the more likely it is that our life partner's habits and foibles will find just the spot to send us into orbit if we let them."  But here's the trick to make certain that you stay triumphantly together to the end and that you don't get heart disease from too much bickering.  If you meditate, you just have to let each other's unreasonableness or quarrelsomeness go, otherwise you just meditate on murder!! and when you come out of meditation, the world looks different, it isn't so compelling and you aren't cross or upset anymore, so I can commend it as a very ordinary over 60 (by quite a bit) wife, mother and grandmother.  But if you are in London next week on November 26th and you come to St Martin-in-the-Fields you can join in Just this Day an annual celebration of stillness and meditation.  You will hear 3 people telling you why and how meditation is the key to living well and finding balance even when the going is tough.  And if you look carefully at all the people there, you will see many a granny with a grandpa at her side who have stayed together and whose hearts are ticking away pretty well.  Your speakers are Father Laurence Freeman, B.K Sister Jayanti and Emily Johnston who all try to give this message  to all the people they come into contact with, with teachers and students, children and the old. They and I look forward to seeing you.  If you live in Australia, India, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Russia or any place in the world, you will be able to watch the whole thing on You Tube the very next day.  Don't worry I will put the links up on the blog as early as possible on the 27th.

BK Sister Jayanti