General (Vol. 1)

Article Sections

Contents

  1. The Drama of Life
  2. River of Baptising Water
  3. Faith, Hope and Love
  4. God's Earth
  5. Nicodemus
  6. Wedding
  7. Relationships
  8. Mothers
  9. Forgiveness
  10. Testaments
  11. The Bethanies
  12. Retrenchment
  13. Donkeys
  14. Learning
  15. Catastrophe
  16. Mercy
  17. Shepherd
  18. The Trinity and its Virtues
  19. Lamb and Shepherd
  20. Peter's Burden
  21. Grandmother
  22. Confirmation
  23. The Way, The Truth and The Life
  24. Puzzles
  25. Comfort
  26. Bethlehem's Legacy
  27. The Church on Earth
  28. Mary's Pentecost
  29. Prayer
  30. Always
  31. Power
  32. Trinity
  33. Responsibility
  34. Strength
  35. Everyone Can Call Upon Jesus
  36. Unity
  37. Jesu of the Desert
  38. Judgment
  39. Sacrifice
  40. Pressure
  41. God in Us
  42. Vocation
  43. Commitment
  44. Jesus of All the Ages
  45. The Spiral
  46. Commendations
  47. Retreat
  48. Lamb, Child, Servant, Shepherd, Priest
  49. The Path
  50. For Victims of Human Failure

Catastrophe

  1. A butterfly shivers its wings,
    The atoms it ripples will pass
    Their minuscule force to a cloud,
    So inducing a critical mass.
    A cloud that cannot bear its weight
    Will instantly start to pour down,
    Dislodging a mountain of earth
    Which will bury a middle sized town.

  2. A tentative smile is ignored
    Which induces, on irrational grounds,
    An increase of depression and guilt
    Which addiction and boredom compound.
    The drugs turn out what was within
    But the self hate is lethally caught
    In a maelstrom which only confirms
    That life is just brutish and short.

  3. We must watch when we shiver our wings
    Or thoughtlessly withhold a smile,
    For the nature of how we were made
    Is to sympathise and reconcile.
    There is torment so great and so fierce
    That united we barely withstand
    But the impact of catastrophe
    Was begun in the palm of our hand.