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Buddy

On Tuesday I went to Ipswich, travelling by bus. We only have one bus per hour and it was 25 minutes late but the sun was shining so I didn’t mind waiting. It might have been a different story if it had been raining. There was a “Buddy Driver” on board and I assumed that…

May dew

May dew was thought to have special properties – girls who bathed in it were thought to have beautiful complexions; people would go out of their way to walk barefoot or roll in it; men who washed their hands in it were thought to become good at tying knots and making nets. Mothers would wrap…

Ascencion

Voyager 1 ascended into space in the year in which I was in the lower sixth form at school. Ever since then it has been travelling further and further from our planet and sending back images which have enhanced human understanding of things God knows and sees. By the time my son was the age…

Rock

Rev Neil Thorogood, Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge, at the time of writing (May 2023). www.christianaid.org.uk/resources/pray/daily-reading He laid the foundation on rock Something to read Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’, and do not do what I tell you? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words,…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 12th May 2024

Seventh Sunday of Easter                                        Year B                                     12th May 2024 Lectionary Readings:   Acts 1 v15-17,21-26.    Psalm 1.      1 John 5 v9-13.        John 17 v6-19. Knowing me, knowing you. Jesus said, “Father, I don’t ask you to take my followers out of the world, but to keep them safe. I am sending them into the…