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This morning I read… Simon the Pharisee asks Jesus to have dinner with him. An ‘immoral woman’ turns up bringing ’a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissingContinue reading “Timing, Tears and Touch”

Yesterday morning I read and wrote about Simeon. God has promised Simeon that he will see the Messiah before he dies; he’s hoping, waiting, anticipating… Joseph and Mary take the month-old Jesus to the temple to present him to God. God tells Simeon to go to the temple where he recognises that this one babyContinue reading “Simeon, Michael, and Unique Opportunities”

Yesterday I was reminded of the wonderful song ‘Rainbow Connection’… Why are there so many songs about rainbowsAnd what’s on the other side?Rainbows are visions, but only illusionsAnd rainbows have nothing to hide So we’ve been told and some choose to believe itI know they’re wrong, wait and seeSomeday we’ll find it, the rainbow connectionTheContinue reading “The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me”

Yesterday for my lunch whilst I was eating an orange I swallowed a pip. I had a flashback to when I was a child. I remember being told that if I swallowed an apple pip, an apple tree would grow inside me. It was a scary picture; I was very careful when eating apples. AsContinue reading “Re-framing The Picture”

Open All Hours was a much enjoyed sitcom, set in a small Yorkshire grocer’s shop that’s ‘open all hours’.  The owner, Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer; his nephew Granville (David Jason) is his put-upon errand boy with no social life. Arkwright’s engaged to nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron)… In theContinue reading “Open All Hours”

‘It’s life. Jim, but not as we know it,’ was supposed to have been said by Dr Spock to Captain Kirk regarding some alien life form in Star Trek… Yesterday, whilst we were doing the usual singing-prayers-sermon-church, our friend Esther was outside in our church garden, around a fire-pit, with her ‘Wild Church’… Church, butContinue reading “…But Not As We Know It.”

On Friday we saw ‘Come From Away’. It tells the incredible true story of 7,000 air passengers from all over the world who were grounded in the small town of Gander, Canada, following 9/11, in 2001. They arrived in Gander on the Tuesday; America declared a national moment of silence on the Friday. As townsfolkContinue reading ““Prayer” from Come From Away “

I’m reading Patricia St John’s autobiography ‘In Her Words’. Patrica was working as a nurse in a remote village in Morrocco, treating a boy who had fallen backwards into a cauldron of boiling water. She’d dressed his wounds, and left instructions for the bandages to be washed, boiled and hung out to dry. She returnedContinue reading “Excuses, Debate and Action”

Earlier today I walked along the beach. It was a beautiful October morning. The calm sea and the sun rising above the sea was witnessed by brave swimmers, early morning joggers, dogs of all shapes and sizes and their owners. One elderly lady was standing, looking out to sea, her dog sitting patiently beside her.Continue reading “And It’s Free”

As a child at Sunday School I learnt about the twelve tribes of Israel. I heard stories about people who lived in tribes in Africa or South America. I saw films about cowboys and American Indian tribes…. In our historical past, we spent our entire lives living as part of a tribe; today psychologists andContinue reading “Belonging to a Tribe”