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Politics: Chancellor Rachel Reeve’s budget has raised taxes to the highest level ever. Labour politicians blame the Tories for the mess the country’s in; the Tories say that this disastrous budget will wreck the economy. There’ll be weaker future growth, higher inflation…  In the US the election campaign Donald Trump has filed a $10bn lawsuitContinue reading “Politics and Junk Mail”

A couple of weeks ago a group of us did some gardening at church. We spent a rainy morning pulling out weeds, cutting back shrubs, filling bags with garden waste. It looks good now; it’s the power of persistence. Yesterday I watched ‘The Haunted Hotel’, a Halloween pantomime for young children…  ‘It’s behind you!’ ‘OContinue reading “The Power of Persistence”

The Beatles sung: Try to see it my wayDo I have to keep on talking ’til I can’t go on?While you see it your wayRun the risk of knowing that our love may soon be goneWe can work it out… I love the spirit of co-operative optimism, but can we always work it out? WeContinue reading “Can We Work It Out?”

Some days I hold strong opinions; I know what I think is right. Other days I’m confused and undecided. Like yesterday… …Reading ‘Trans Formations’ by Alex Clare-Young. The cover announces: ‘Situated within the queer paradigm, this book presents the identities, insights and ideas of ten diverse trans and non-binary Christians.’ One reviewer says: ‘…A bookContinue reading “Confused and Undecided”

I love mixed metaphors. Any comments about too many cooks breaking a camels back, or a rolling stone catching a worm make me smile. I listen out for football commentators who talk about teams parking the bus with their backs against the wall or preachers telling me that I’m a lost sheep who can soarContinue reading “Planted Trees, Winding Roads and Mixed Metaphors”

Watching ‘The Voice’ last night we were reminded of the old Paul McCartney song ‘The Long and Winding Road’. The long and winding road that leads to your door,Will never disappear, I’ve seen that road beforeIt always leads me here, lead me to your door. The wild and windy night that the rain washed away,HasContinue reading “The Long and Winding Road”

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”