Category: attitude of gratitude
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appreciate me now and avoid the rush
We have recently had some unexpected deaths in the music industry. Tragically Whitney Houston and Davy Jones have both died prematurely. Understandably their music has received significant airplay on the radio following their deaths by way of tribute to them. What I am still trying to get my head around is that (and this seems…
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Counting our blessings again
Once again this year Christian Aid are releasing Count Your Blessings for Lent. Baptist Christians don’t tend to make as much of Lent as other churches, but I thoroughly recommend you take part in this if you can*. The idea is that each day during Lent we are encouraged to consider our position of privilege in…
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P A R T Y! Why? Because I gotta!*
According to WordPress, this is my 500th blog post. 500 bloggages?! That seems incredible to me. Of course, to those who have read them, it seems incredible that there are only 500 interminable entries… I have been reflecting on this fact for a while, anticipating what brilliant bloggerel I should post on here to mark the…
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little things…
Isn’t it amazing how something simple can make a big difference? I have had to admit that I need to use reading glasses when I read with my contact lenses in. This is only for when I am reading from books or newspapers, but the ‘off the peg’ reading glasses I bought from a well-known…
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getting older
Yesterday I was leading a devotional thought for the folk who come to our lunch club for the elderly. I was going to begin with a few jokes about getting older: The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. Bob Hope: “She said she was approaching forty – I…
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looking back and looking forward
The church at which I am one of the ministers is 321 years old. Okay, by the standards of some parish churches that is not so old, by when you consider that Baptist churches are only just 400 years old, it’s pretty good. To mark our church being 300 years old in 1989 one of…
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