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I love Godspell – both film and stage show… I love how Stephen Schwartz can make a song out of 7 words… ‘Prepare ye the way of the Lord’… Isaiah ancient prophecy… quoted by John the Baptist, the fearless prophet calling for people to repent and be baptised… preparing the way for Jesus …And IContinue reading “Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord”

The Seagull Theatre is a converted 1895-built school that I’ve been involved with for 30 years. This was an exciting week for The Seagull – work started on our £300,000 development project. Our new facilities will include an accessible toilet block, rehearsal studio, extra dressing room, large workshop space… Gilberts, our local builders, have dugContinue reading “Unseen, Vital, But Often Forgotten”

My eyes were tested in January… ‘All is fine. You don’t need new glasses.’ I wasn’t convinced – I thought my eyesight had deteriorated… I accepted the optician’s verdict. Recently I went for my annual hospital eye clinic appointment. ‘You need new glasses,’ the doctor said. I decided to try a different optician… Yesterday GregContinue reading “All Will Be Resolved”

Yesterday I went with my friend Ivan to Norwich. Ivan required cataract surgery… As a child in Sunday School I heard stories of the Jesus who made blind men see. I was taught that seeing wasn’t just about physical sight but was about understanding, seeing truth that may be hidden. I learnt the phrase ‘lookingContinue reading “Seeing… Believing… Understanding?”

Yesterday was the hottest day on record. Temperatures in some parts of the UK exceeded 40C. As the heat intensified across East Anglia fire crews were called to dozens of blazes. We’re seeing pictures of far worse fires in France and Spain… We’re told that this is part of ongoing climate change. We must learnContinue reading “Living With The Heat”

Several friends have asked for an update on our rats and kitchen… We still see rats in our garden. The ‘rat-man’ came again last week. He assured us we don’t have a rats’ nest… – they’re visiting us from neighbouring gardens… It seems that we have an ‘open-door situation’ for rats. Scott the kitchen fitterContinue reading “Open Doors, Closed Doors”

Yesterday Gail mentioned: ‘If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. YouContinue reading “Beauty And Ugliness”

Our God is a great big GodOur God is a great big GodOur God is a great big GodAnd He holds us in His hand Yesterday was Sarah’s funeral, at the crematorium for the committal service, and then at her church for the thanksgiving service. We grieved together, so sad that Sarah is no longerContinue reading “Our God Is A Great Big God”

I love reading the Bible… the comfort and encouragement of the old and familiar… the well-worn story understood in a fresh way… the part that I don’t remember reading before. This morning’s musing: ‘Can the axe boast greater power than the person who uses it? Is the saw greater than the person who saws? CanContinue reading “Can A Wooden Cane Walk By Itself?”

The kitchen fitters kept saying ‘dot’n’dab’. I asked them what the word was and what it meant. I’ve learnt that ‘dot and dab’ is a process involving dots and dabs of adhesive sticking plasterboard directly to bare walls… Chris the plasterer is proving to be an expert in dot’n’dabbing… filling holes, levelling rough surfaces, creatingContinue reading “Dot’n’dab”