nukelearfishing – the random and occasionally humorous musings of a Baptist Minister who is trying to be a free sample of Jesus and discover God in the ordinary.
(These musings don’t necessarily represent the views of the church I serve)
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incommunicado
Yesterday evening I thought I had broken the internet. We could not get any connection from our house and I wondered if somehow I had pressed the wrong button and deleted the whole of the World Wide Web. Oops! On reflection, however, it seems that nobody else suffered the same problems and it is likely that…
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playing with dough
Interesting day today. I spent most of the morning in our Bright Sparks group with pre-school children and their parents / carers. As well as setting out a Wooden Railway (which stayed mostly intact through the session so it must have been a good layout) I spent lots of time playing with play dough (home-made,…
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Good morning children. Good Morning Mr Williams, good morning everyone
I’ve just got back from taking part in a Primary School Assembly and remembered how we used to greet everyone in my Primary School (as in the title). Of course the words were not spoken normally, they had a rhythm and melody that went with them! The purpose of our visit was to give out…
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>a tidy desk is a sign that you do not have enough to do…
> My study is a bit of a mess at the moment. I think it’s the result of me not working in it properly for about a month so I have dumped stuff in piles, in ‘in trays’ and anywhere there is space. The piles have started getting tall enough to fall over. I sense…
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>remember, remember…
>Why are we human beings obsessed with calendars? More specifically, why are we so keen on remembering dates? (Or trying to remember them if we are blokes) We celebrate our birthdays on the same day of the year each year. Married people celebrate the anniversary of the day they were married. In the UK we…
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none the wiser?
I used to be a lawyer. This meant I was often the recipient of lawyer-related humour such as: Why don’t sharks eat lawyers? Professional courtesy. Tombstone inscription: Here lies Thomas Barnes – an honest man and a lawyer. Observer: “How did they fit three people in one grave?” They are funny in their own limited way. I…
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>speaking conversationally
>It’s been a busy day. It’s the first day I was in the church office since the op and it has been fruitful and tiring. I have had some God-inspired conversations with people (where I was in the right place at the right time and had the courage to ask the right question). But I have…
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>balance your humours
>I have been reading some books set in medieval times. In it there are many references to people having different humours. The thinking was that we need a balance of different ‘humours’ in our bodies for us to function at our best, they affect the way that we feel. The four are: blood, phlegm, yellow bile,…
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21 today!
Why are people reticent to reveal their age? After we reach 29 it seems that we would rather not tell people how old we are. We may say we are ‘twentyteen’ or cough violently as we are revealing our age. Or there’s the good old fail-safe ’21 again’. I am 21 today. Honestly. Okay, it’s my…
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scars
How did Jesus feel about Thomas wanting to see and touch his scars? Now that I am out and about a bit more and interacting with people again I have been a little upset when some friends have asked to see the scar on the back of my head. While it is not particularly embarrassing…
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