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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.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”