Last night I had been reading my book, We Are One, prior to sending it off for editing. I had been reading the conversation which my character, Angela, has with God about Islam and the issues which Angela has with certain passages in the Qur’an. I realised that one issue which hadn’t been discussed in the book was apostasy. Apostasy for Muslims is said to be “conscious abandonment of Islam
I no longer watch the news or read newspapers, but I know that if anything happens that I need to know, my guides and angels will ensure I learn about it. Naturally, I heard about the attacks in Brussels and was just as horrified as everyone else. But I had another underlying emotion which I had trouble identifying. It felt a bit like anger, but had tinges of incredulity and
The quote for May 30 from the Tao Te Ching, in Dr Wayne Dyer’s perpetual calendar: Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life, is this: When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.When goodness is lost, there is morality.When morality is lost, there is ritual.Ritual is the husk of true faith, the beginning of chaos. My understanding of this quote is that, even when a strong connection to God