Thank you to all the expected and unexpected insights into motherhood we were offered yesterday. Mary got a few mentions – how she was there at the cross, when disciples and others weren’t. I guess she’d moved a long way from that time when the family were seriously worried about his mental health because he […]
Let me start with an apology. Please! It’s probably irrelevant to you, as I doubt any blogs I’ve written would be lodged in anyone’s memory, but it will make me feel better, so please indulge me. What am I on about? Well, I have this fear that I will write a blog I’ve already written. […]
Most of us, at some time, will have heard it said that sculptors – well, classical ones like Michaelangelo – have a sense of what is in the stone slab, and they enable it to emerge with their chisel and mallet. They deal with the fine detail, minute by minute, but their eye is on […]
We used to have a set of books, no words, just coloured drawings. Each page was like a dolls house, in that you could see inside the rooms of factories, or an airport, or a garage. Everywhere there was activity, lots to see and talk about as the kids were growing up. Not unlike the […]
It is rather ironic, the day after conducting the monthly evening healing service, to find myself out of action and being laid low by the ‘bug’ that is going around. Not a great advert for the service, but then again so many ministers who seem to gather folk together in a way that enables them […]
Thank you All Saints for another day of heaven-opening worship. With the BAFTAs rattling on in the background, these were some of my highlights from the 10.30 this morning. The welcome given to the baptism party early arrivals – drinks in the creche and toys ready to roll. The medic, the nurse and the first-aider […]
Every time, without fail. Not Bagel, of course. The faithful little cocker spaniel just gets on with exploring and running about, and following her nose. Well, Lunar does that too, but somehow she knows she is going to get noticed, is kind enough to get close enough to be stroked and patted, and called beautiful, […]
At church we have acquired over the last few years some very interesting lights. They have been chosen by folk who can understand their effect, and how they can be enjoyed. Peter has had the vision to put together plans, and see them through, to enable them to be placed discreetly and usefully in the […]
