Today marks my first day as a pensioner: a pension from a previous employer begins from today. I’ll still be working for many years to come, but ‘pensioner’ has a strange ring to it- it is me, but is this me? I have no desire to hide the label: it’s part of life, and evenContinue reading “Pensioner”
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Community…
The village pantomime has finished: I found it hugely enjoyable- each time when I’m cast, my inner child who was too scared to do this punches the air in triumph. It’s always a risk auditioning: you might not get a part, particularly when the dramatic society have new faces joining. I find it quite nerveContinue reading “Community…”
‘My’
It happened a couple of times a few months ago; I was talking to someone at work and I referred to ‘my team’. Each time I said it it, it felt false- like I was striving for position and status. I stopped immediately, but it still feels uncomfortable recalling it. If pressed, I now talk ofContinue reading “‘My’”
Christmas
This picture is one of the pages of scrawl that I made for Christmas Day: nothing in it made it into the final edit. It took a long time to put what I did together, but the space to think, write, pray and wrestle with my demons was worth it: to me at least. Overall,Continue reading “Christmas”
Innocents
There’s a scene in one of my favourite Christmas films, ‘Nativity’ where one of the characters is looking to put on a Nativity play that will be better than anything ever seen before. At one point he says:- ‘Herod? No one’s ever done him before’ Accordingly, be bases it on the ‘massacre of the innocents’*Continue reading “Innocents”
Cards
This is a picture of a card I received a couple of weeks ago. It was from a young child on one of the occasions when I was Santa. It is my favourite card this Christmas and the wide eyed innocence with which it was given to me as Santa almost reduced me to tears.Continue reading “Cards”
Advent
I don’t like waiting, unless I know how long I’ve got to wait. The tradition that I came to faith in put much stress on ‘immanence’ (the word ‘immediate’ is related to it) : the Divine was close at hand and Jesus linked you to that Divine. However rocky faith becomes, I hope I’ll holdContinue reading “Advent”
Sometimes it’s more important to love than to always have it right
Sometimes writing ‘flows’: this didn’t and its not what it could be, but the whole point of restarting this blog is to put something out- even if its incomplete and you can see the flaws. There’s a story told in a Mike Riddell book that goes something like this:- A church shared a party wallContinue reading “Sometimes it’s more important to love than to always have it right”
Sunday School Thinking
I was reading an article at the weekend and the writer referred to the forthcoming reshuffle announced today and said that Prime Ministers could be brutal when doing this; ‘It’s not singing ‘Kum Ba Yah’ they said. I’ve heard variations of this over the years, often around the idea ‘it’s not Sunday School, you know’Continue reading “Sunday School Thinking”
Test post
Written to see if this works. I’m not hopeful.
Wearily Hopeful 