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My blog’s usually a reflection on yesterday – the funny story, unusual situation… ‘A-Ha!’ moment, ‘Oh-No’ event… what happened, what I learnt, where I saw my God… Yesterday – nothing! It was Mundane Monday. In my weekly prayer walk I pass a boating-lake. It’s my trigger to pray for ‘those who would walk on water’Continue reading “Mundane Monday”

Confusion… On Saturday we went to London, to Shakespeare’s ‘Globe Theatre’ – the original 1599 theatre was rescued in the 1990s… We saw ‘Comedy of Errors’ – a Shakespeare play that we’d not seen before… Two identical twins – both called Antipholus – were separated at birth. They each have a servant – both calledContinue reading “Being Me…”

Two little boys had two little toysEach had a wooden horseGaily they played, each summers dayWarriors both of courseOne little chap then had a mishapBroke off his horse’s headWept for his toy, then cried with joyAs his young playmate said “Did you think I would leave you cryingWhen there’s room on my horse for two?ClimbContinue reading “Two Little Boys”

Early yesterday morning I walked along the beach. It was warm. There was a sea mist. The sea was calm. I passed a couple paddle-boarding… a number of swimmers, dog walkers, joggers… This week’s news is dominated today by death at sea in the North Atlantic; last week it was death at sea from theContinue reading “But Here And Now… It’s OK”

Lessons in love encountered yesterday… Charles Darwin sailed round the world. After five years making discoveries, formulating scientific theories, he returned to England. In 1839 he married Emma Wedgewood, daughter of Josiah Wedgewood, the famous potter, entrepreneur, abolitionist. Charles of Emma: ‘I can declare that in my whole life I have not heard her utterContinue reading “Musing on Love – with Charles, Luca, Hosea, Henri…”

In the film “The English Patient,” Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas) is introduced to Almásy (Ralph Fiennes), the Hungarian explorer. Katharine says “I wanted to meet the man who could write such a long paper with so few adjectives” Katharine talks about love to illustrate the importance of adjectives: ‘Love – romantic love, platonic love,Continue reading “Love – With So Few Adjectives”

Play… As a child I played with my teddy, played with cars, played marbles… played ludo… with a board, dice and counters… the Latin ‘ludo’ means ‘I play’… ‘I’m playing ludo’ is ‘I’m playing I play’. Growing up I played the piano, played rugby, played monopoly. Now I play with bits of wood at ‘Men’sContinue reading “Play, Work and Service”

I played Cluedo as a child, a parent and a grandparent… A murder’s been committed; there are six suspects, nine rooms and six possible murder weapons. At the end of the game we discover whether it was Miss Scarlet in the dining room with the candlestick or Professor Plum in the library with the dagger…Continue reading “Cluedo, Mysteries and Unanswered Questions”

As a child I was confused by the old hymn that started: When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, I didn’t know what ‘billows’ were. It sounded like ‘pillows’; being tossed in pillows sounded  like fun to me… …Since then I’ve got beyond the first line andContinue reading “Billows and Pillows”

When skies grow dark and all we see are shadowsThe road too rough, the mountains rise too farWhen pain runs deep, and wounds cry out for answersWe come to you, O Jesus of the ScarsWhat other god chose to be born in weaknessKnew toil and tears and felt our deepest woe?Then to a cross, toContinue reading “Jesus of the Scars”