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Dealing with the Silence

The bird recognition app on my phone tells me which of my avian friends are in the garden – robins, magpies, woody the woodpecker, little wren…This morning I turned it on; there was nothing. No songs, no noise, no friendly visitors. Complete silence. …Talking to friends who see injustices in the world, bad things happening…

Lessons from Falling

Yesterday… …Cycling home from church, I passed Alan cutting his hedge. Alan’s bungalow is on a corner, and he has a high hedge on two sides of his property. Growing in his hedge were several bullace trees. He picked a few and offered them to me. They looked and tasted good, like small round plums.…

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

I woke up this morning singing the old hymn, ‘Leaning on the Everlasting Arms’. I don’t know where it came from in; I can’t have sung it for sixty years. I looked it up. It was written by Elisha Hoffman who was born in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania in 1839. What a fellowship, what a joy divine,leaning…

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