MODUS OPERANDI 

We are here in this life
to serve God or
if you prefer to build love.
They are both the same.

So many of us are told
to look for happiness
in what we do, and how
we can build our futures

But happiness is found
in the mode of service,
beyond the mode of self.

For if we work solely
for ourselves, on our plan,
we exclude others.

But when we look to all others,
we include ourselves.
For we are part of all.

​MULTI-STORY

We choose how to spend our time,
how to live our life and
what our priorities are.

It is these choices,
that create the picture, or canvas,
that captures all that we are.

And sometimes we make
the wrong choices and the wrong decisions.
But we can start again.

We can paint over our canvas.
We can make new decisions,
better choices.

So, many layers and stories
are built up over the years.
All is embedded on this one canvas.

This is our gift to the world,
enabling us to leave behind
all that we are.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  does your canvas show at the moment?
2. What layers have been covered over? How many? ​

MALFUNCTION
 
The opposite of love is unlove.
It is when we move away
from our true nature.
It is when we create
a situation within ourselves,
which is not aligned
to our true being and
what we will become.

​DOOR HANDLE

What happens in this moment
can change absolutely everything,
if I let love in.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  do you have to do to open the door?
2. What will be  different for you when love comes in? 

​BLACK FRIDAY
 
They’re going to be
scratching their heads
even more this year.
Wondering what to get
the Old Man for Christmas.
 
Amazon will have more
clicks and cash than it
could ever have imagined.
Black Friday is becoming
Black Christmas.
 
So perhaps I’ll adopt
a different approach,
and take the pressure off those
determined to buy me something.
This year. I’ll say exactly
what I would like.
 
There are millions of people
and thousands of groups
struggling in the present situation.
There is no normal Christmas
this year.
 
So, I would love it,
if you could
make a small donation
to those doing good work
or help a local cause on my behalf.
 
However, if you really want
to do the online
Christmas shopping experience,
then why not send a surprise toy
to a young family,
a gift to an older person or
a food delivery to a local food bank.
 
We can spend our way from now
to a Black Christmas
or we can empower each other
and  create a Kinder Christmas.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What  would you have said?

​ARRIVALS  LOUNGE

Sit down.
Put the phone down.
Put the book down.
Put the pen down.
Breathe out.
Relax.
Smile.
You have arrived.

​IMMERSION
 
I close my eyes and
I can see everything.
The past, the present and
the future is all around me.
 
But it’s not activities, places
or people I see.
It cannot be described
for it has no form.
 
It is way beyond me
and yet in me,
as I am in it.
With everything.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  How  and where  does the word  immersion relate to you? 
2.  What  is 'way beyond you, and yet in you'? 
3.   In Astronomy, 'immersion' is defined as 'the disappearance of a celestial body in the shadow of or behind another'.   How might this relate to us? 

PRODUCTION COMPANY 

 From the words that you write
these are lines to be spoken.
There are songs to be sung
and thoughts to be owned.
 
There are moments to be savoured
and truths to be uncovered.
There are ways to be taken
and a life to be discovered.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What words are you writing?
2. Begin to keep a journal, capture your thoughts every day and create you own  production company.

​SIGN  LANGUAGE
 
The rabbit.
The dog and
the seagull.
 
I can still make those
hand shadows
against the wall,
when I get close to the light.
 
I can still remember
their voices and
the dramatic storylines.
They are forever with me.
 
The rabbit.
The dog and
the seagull.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What shadows can you create with your hands? 
2. What's your story?