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Category: remember

  • remembrance

    We interrupt the occasional thoughts about prayer to bring you my sermonette from Sunday morning – Remembrance Sunday… It always feels very poignant when I share communion on Remembrance Sunday, as we did last Sunday morning – Remembrance Sunday. The poppies are a moving remembrance of the death of many who have died in war.…

  • unseeing

    Do you sometimes wish you could ‘unsee’ things? Do you wish that you could delete what you have seen in the same way that you can delete the viewing history in a browser? As a boy I remember stumbling (!) across a small stash of items in the bottom of my parents’ wardrobe that were…

  • time for Remembering

    For those leading services on Remembrance Sunday it can be one of the most fraught days of the year. It is not necessarily because of the content but because most services start before or at 11am on the Sunday and we have to incorporate the 2 minutes’ silence at the right time. This requires a level of…

  • spiritual landmarks

    If you look back over your life what significant events do you remember? What are the highlights? What are the days that are etched firmly in your memory as significant moments?* This coming weekend has the potential for awesomeness because it is full of such events. On Saturday I will be conducting a wedding at…

  • rememberiscence

    This morning I had a moment of reminiscence. I am not sure if I was daydreaming or remembering, nor do I know what triggered it, but all of a sudden I found myself remembering being at my Grandparents’ church singing “To God be the Glory!” A rememberiscence: TO GOD BE THE GLORY! great things He…

  • lost thoughts

    Don’t you hate it when you have a good idea or profound thought as you are dropping off to sleep and can’t remember it the next day when you wake up? I have a pad of paper and a pen next to my bed for just such an eventuality. It also helps me to write…

  • going anywhere nice for your holidays?

    I had a traumatic experience on Wednesday. It involved flashbacks, anxiety, envy, a pair of scissors and some money. On Wednesday I took my daughter somewhere that brought back pleasant memories for me. It reminded me of relaxing and pleasant times in my past that will never happen again. I took her to the hairdressers.…

  • anniversary time

      This year marks some significant anniversaries. It is 400 years since the King James Version of the Bible was released. It was the first widely accessible version of the Bible in English and the impact on churches, the Christian faith and believers is impossible to underestimate. I am slightly concerned about how it is…

  • memories

    I have had an idea for a blog entry. The trouble is that every time I think of it I am nowhere near my computer and don’t have pen and paper available so I promise myself I won’t forget it and will remember when I sit down at the computer. The last thing I want…

  • surprise blessings

    Okay, I have managed to fit in a quick blog (200th today). I was so blessed and surprised recently when the kind young man (thanks Chris) who operated the video camera at our church to show the recent baptisms on the big screen presented me with a DVD of Thomas being baptised. They had had…