ST PAUL’S MESSAGE FOR CONVERSATION

IN his letter to the Philippians, St Paul encourages us to to look to the good and noble in life and make them the subjects of our conversations, rather than the other nonsense.

Canadian poet Edna Jaques must have had that letter in mind when she wrote:

“If there is beauty in a world of ill,

A quiet valley where a church bell rings,

Where there is faith and love and little homes,

Speak on these things . . . “