Category: love
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vive l’amour
[Warning, this started off as a mini-bloggette, and has developed into a long bloggage!] Over the weekend many people have changed their Facebook Profile Picture so that it temporarily shows a Tricoloure (French Flag) across their image – comme ça. (Facebook now has the facility to do this temporarily.) It is to show solidarity with…
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advice for modern living
Having seen many ‘top ten’ and ‘essential’ lists of things that we need for modern living on t’internet and elsewhere I felt that it was time that I gave you my advice. It is based on no empirical research. 1. Love more 2. Live more 3. Laugh more You might be a bit disappointed by…
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take a tablet
Christians sometimes pay more attention to the Ten Commandments than the Sermon on the Mount. On the basis that we pay most attention to what is written on tablets of stone Jesus has sent another stone tablet… Be blessed, be a blessing
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Here be dragons
It may help you to read yesterday’s bloggage at this point and then come back, in order to set a context. Done that? Good. On ancient maps, so we are told, where the map maker had run out of knowledge at the edge of the map they would write ‘Here be Dragons’ or similar warnings…
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loopholes?
What do you do when there are no rules? What happens when new and as yet envisaged circumstances arise for which no rules have been written? To an extent that seems to be what is happening with social media and how it is being used in our society. we are having to work out the…
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family planning
I wasn’t planning an adoption I already have enough children One has just been torn from my grasp and ripped from my heart Typical of him, though, to be thinking of me Right at the end In the midst of it all I wasn’t planning an adoption but I have just been adopted.
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last minute decision
Today I have had an epiphany. It’s difficult isn’t it. When one section of society celebrates it can unintentionally alienate another. So English people might celebrate a win at rugby or football or cricket and non-England supporters can feel left out. Sport-lovers celebrated the Olympics and Paralympics last year and those who don’t like sport…
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words
Warm air has been flowing up and over cold air and the water vapour from the warm air has super-cooled to form tiny ice particles, which have been precipitated across our part of the country. It has snowed. This morning my wife and I coordinated 34 facial muscles and 112 postural muscles, particularly the orbicularis oris muscles, and applied our…
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The heart of the matter
I’ve been contemplating the recent decision by the Church of England General Synod. Personally, I was saddened and disappointed that they were unable to agree to have women as bishops. Part of me wants to throw my hands up in the air and sound exasperated. But I keep seeing a man writing in dirt and…
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love lumps
I spent a lot of the past few days with a lump in my throat. It has been quite emotional. Watching my Dad get ordained in the Church of England was very moving – not really because of the service but because of what it represented. I know that he has felt called to be…
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