 Greif iawn. The first item of business today is Time for Reflection and our Time for Reflection leader is the Rev. Morris Calachan Parish Priestess and John the Baptist, Port Glasgow. A years ago, I read a short story, and it was about a city called Omalas. Omalas was one of those fabled places that is beautiful, peaceful and prosperous, and all of its citizens wrth gwrs, yw'r lleion. Yn y bethau i'r byw yn yma'r eich bwlygu o'r gweithgol, yn ymddangos o'r rhaid o'r gyllid yn y profiad yn y gweld, rydyn ni'n ddiddordeb yn awrwyr, maen nhw'n ddiddordeb o'r ddiddordeb yn 10 yn yr ysbryd, ond yn yn 6. Mae'r ysbryd yn y llwyddiad ar y dyfodol, ac mae'n rhaid o'r rhaid i'r llwyddiad, no whinever speaks to this child. Sometimes people come in and the child's kicked to its feet. The child though hasn't always been in this room, but although it cries and screams, sometimes says, I will be good, but nobody replies to this and the door is locked again. The people of Omelass all know the child's there. They know it has to be there. For a sort of contract exists for every child in that city between the ages of eight and 12, it's taken into the room to see this child. It's explained to all of them that everything good in the city, the happiness, the beauty, the prosperity, it all depends on that child being kept in this room in these conditions. The youngsters are of course very upset when they hear this, but the vast majority learn to live with it, except that every so often one of the youngsters does not go home. They leave the city and they don't go back. They walk away from Omelass. The contract of Omelass isn't just a fable, it's a reality of the world. Pictures show it better than words. A dead, drowned Syrian toddler in the arms of a Greek soldier because Europe's borders have become a deadly barrier. A burnt-out tower block in a wealthy London borough because cost competes with safety and furbishing poor people's homes sees that a full of plastic melting ice caps starving polar bears and deadly droughts because we need our lifestyle, my good at the expense of others misery, the contract of Omelass. Certainly, Omelass is more of a mindset than a place. Good religions always see this, good politics, good humanity have always seen this. It's all connected. The kingdom of God within me connects with the kingdom in you, the Buddha nature in you, the conscience in you, everyone, everything, it all matters or it's all diminished. Discount one child, discount a polar bear and then we're back in Omelass.