I went to an evening Mass. Perhaps because it was evening, or because I had been reading the Dalai Lama’s words that a Buddhist must not just think about his death every day but prepare for it (and that it is in the approach to death that often greater spiritual awareness comes), I thought on death.

We think these ‘big’ decisions in our lives are all important, which they may be to a certain extent, but we forget that they are only temporary. I am always reminded of the reading of the man who fills his heart with the realisstion that this very night “an account will be made of his soul.”

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant looking for pure pearls. When he finds one of great value, he goes and sells everything he owns to buy it.

Matt 13:44.66