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The Best Laid Plans…
The Scottish poet Robbie Burns wrote the famous words (in translation): The best laid plans of Mice and Menoft go awry,And leave us nought but grief and pain,For promised joy! They’re part of an eight-verse poem ‘To a Mouse’. Farmer Robbie Burns, accidentally ploughed through poor “Mousie’s” nest in a field. The poem is an…
Marching out of Step
Yesterday… …Reading Ken Kesey’s ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’. The rebellious Randle McMurphy enters a psychiatric hospital where each patient is expected to conform. A staff member says of McMurphy, ‘He who marches out of step hears another drum’. Apparently, the original Henry Thoreau nineteenth century quote reads: ‘If a man does not keep…
For This I Have Jesus
When Rachel and I were involved in church youth work fifty years ago I met Graham Kendrick. It was an event for church youth leaders in Derby. I remember a humble, warm, personable man, who was expressing his faith in songs that were accessible and authentic. I often return to his songs. This week I…
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