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Dear Friends, The seven weeks between Easter and Pentecost always feel a bit strange to me, it is as though we remain in a kind of hiatus, but I think that a bit like the season of Lent, we have an opportunity to reflect. I remember being at a meeting once where we shared Holy…
Third Sunday of Easter Year C 1st May 2022 Lectionary Readings: Acts 9 v1-6 (7-20); Psalm 30; Revelation 5 v11-14; John 21 v1-19. Jesus asks, “Do you love me?” The chosen passage from John’s gospel tells of the encounter between Jesus and Simon Peter on the shore of Lake Tiberias. When Jesus and his…
Over the last 2 years I have been meeting with friends from around the Ipswich Circuit and beyond for a time of Reflection & Prayer, led by Sue France. This has been done from the comfort of our own homes on a Monday morning, some of us eating our porridge, (and possibly some of us…
Lincoln dvd, 2012 Twentieth Century Fox 144 minutes £3 The consummate professionalism of Steven Spielberg is manifestly evident in this film. It is not a full-blown biography of the American President, the focus is rather on a few weeks towards the end of the Civil War in what turned out to be the…
The Mayor of Cormorant Minnesota USA sadly died on Thursday 21st February 2019, just six months after retiring from office. Duke, the thirteen year old Pyrenean Mountain Dog had been the mayor of the village of Cormorant located about two hundred and sixteen miles north west of Minneapolis, with a population of around a thousand…
Here are words of Psalm 23 translated into Eduspeak. It is a laughable parody. If you are like me, having laughed or been puzzled, you would much prefer the original King James version. The Lord and I are in a shepherd/sheep situation and I am in a position of negative need. He prostrates me in…
The army of Alexander the Great was advancing on Persia. At one critical point, it appeared that his troops might be defeated. The soldiers had taken so much plunder from their previous campaigns that they had become weighted down and were losing their effectiveness in combat. Alexander immediately commanded that all spoils be thrown into…
Living in the British Isles with a maritime climate and never far from the sea it is unwise to predict the weather in advance; doing so is notoriously fraught with the risk of being wrong. Modern weather forecasting is more reliable than ever when looking a few hours ahead but after that becomes more prone…
As I continue to search through files in my office or on my laptop I find things that are treasures to me. This is one that means a lot to me, mainly because of the effect it had on David. Back in 2005 my husband and I were introduced to a course called Essence written by…