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Seeing First Light
On the Beach: This weekend, on Lowestoft beach, was our annual First Light Festival with music and performance, arts and workshops, over 24 stages and venues… Folks from out church were involved in wellbeing sessions, hosting the ‘Soul Space’… It’s the ‘First Light’ Festival because, Sunday was the Summer Solstice. As the most easterly point…
Scorn Not His Simplicity
Listening to Phil Coulter songs last week. I discovered ‘Scorn Not His Simplicity’, that Coulter wrote in 1969, shortly after the birth of his first son, who had Down syndrome. See the child with the golden hairYet eyes that show the emptiness insideDo we know, can we understand just how he feelsOr have we really…
Every Problem is an Opportunity
Many years ago, I was told ‘every problem is an opportunity’. It’s a bit of a cliché. I’ve been musing… Many will recognise today as ‘World Refugee Day’. This year’s theme is ‘Until everyone is safe’. The United Nations website states: ‘By mid-2025, 117.3 million people worldwide remained forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, violence, human…
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