JULIET'S MUSINGS

  A thing of beauty is a joy forever; It's loveliness increases, it will never Pass into nothingness... John Keats To see a World in a grain of sand And Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. William Blake Clouds are glorious  Gilded horizon Dewèd hedgerows glitter - But weeping is in their voice. Bird song tumultuous Moonrise gentle Grass tremulous in the softened breeze, While the world is on its knees... Yet my soul sings 'Beauty will be victorious!' Juliet Ross - written during an evening walk on the day of the Manchester and London terror attacks 6.6.17

  My vicar Kathryn recently went to a conference with this title, where they were exploring how much music and the arts can influence humanity for the good and how to make it happen more. I was instantly overjoyed that there could be such a conference with such a purpose and enough people asking that question to make it happen. It had a resonance deep in my soul for what has become a motivating force in my life.           Some good while ago I made a decision not to focus on all the extreme               sorrow, suffering and basic hell that is increasing in this world - (I used                to try to be an intercessor for the nations but that nearly destroyed                          me) - but rather to plant flowers on the bomb site where and when I            ...