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FRIENDSHIP

On looking through my Leprosy Mission Christmas Catalogue I came across a tea towel headed “A Good Friend Tea Towel”.  There are many quotes of what friendship means all over the tea towel.  Some are: Friends are the flowers in the garden of life. Best friends always stay to dry up. A true friend makes…

Sack of Potatoes!

1 Peter 5 v 7.Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.Isaac Page tells the story of a poor man in Ireland who was plodding along toward home, carrying a huge sack of potatoes. A horse and wagon came along and the driver stopped to give him a ride. The man accepted and…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 7th November 2021

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary time.               Year B                            7th November 2021. Lectionary Readings:  1 Kings 17 v8-16;  Psalm 146;  Hebrews 9 v24-28;  Mark 12 v38-44. Compassion plus ? = Justice Mark tells a story about a poor widow who placed all she had, as her gift, into the Temple offering box. (Mark 12 v41-44).…

Blah! Blah! Blah!

Greta Thunberg certainly caught the world’s attention with that one word! She was attending the Pre-COP 26 meeting in Milan, where various world leaders were meeting to try and agree on actions before the main COP-26 meeting in Glasgow which starts this week, and accused the world’s politicians of “30 years of blah! blah! blah!”…