NOTHING in life is separate, everything is interconnected. If we damage one aspect of life we damage all life, just as if we begin to heal one aspect of life we begin to heal all life. Or to paraphrase Jesus What you do to the least of them, you do to me. Everything is interconnected, nothing lives separately from all life and I believe that is all connected by a Great Universal thread from which all life exists. I call this thread God.

True reverential spiritual living, an awareness of the sacred in everything helps us to recognise the importance of everything. It helps us see that everything matters. Every thought, every feeling, every word and every deed. It helps us recognise the intrinsic value of our own lives too. It reveals how we see life and how we live in life impacts on everything, including our own souls, our own beings.

I am recognising this more and more as I live and breathe and enjoy my own being and that in which I live and breathe and share my being. In recent months, as I have simply enjoyed walking round where I live, I have felt more connected to the people and the nature that I pass and interact with.

As my reverence and love for life has grown, so has my love for my own being too. This has helped to heal some of the tears within my being and as this has occurred I felt a deeper love for life itself.

If we want to begin to heal the world in which we live and breathe and share our being in we must begin by healing the tears in our being and soothing the tears in our own eyes…It is our task I believe to heal the world in which live and breathe and share our being, it begins with us…

Soozi Holbech quoted in “The Way Ahead” edited by Eddie and Debbie Shapiro said: “I am reminded of the story of the teacher who tears to shreds a map of the world and, thinking it an impossible task, gives it to a recalcitrant student to put together. Within 10 minutes the boy is back, the task completed. Astounded, the teacher asks him how he did it. The boy replies: "When I turned the pieces over, I found a torn-up man. I put him together, and when I looked at the other side, the world was whole again."

If we are to heal the tears in the fabric of this our world, it has to begin with the tears in one another’s eyes…We can begin to heal the tears in the fabric of this world by beginning to bring healing to the tears in one another’s eyes…

Rev Danny Crosby

Dunham Road Unitarian Chapel Altrincham

Queens Road Unitarian Free Church, Urmston