Watching the 'news' early this morning over my morning cup of coffee I see that we are due for a windy weekend. The image below reminds me of the saying ' red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning'. Our Saturday Christmas market which takes place in Midsomer Norton has been cancelled due to wind threats and I see that from this Friday evening winds will start to get up and reach 35 miles an...
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. This is looking at death from the Christian perspective and applies to an individual human soul but we could equally well look from the secular point of view at the death of a relationship or...
And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Such is the message that was drummed into me as the son of a vicar in South London (Streatham) in the 1960's). The principle is still relevant today. The implication of the above is that It is not so much the knowledge of God or even the words of God through Jesus, but the peace of God....
The most profound peace of mind is when you are in an environment where your body's foibles and imperfections are left behind, in other words in the state that we would call heaven. There is a homophone to peace and that is 'piece'. When we say we're going to 'give someone a piece of our mind' you mean we are going to say in no uncertain terms what we think of them. It's funny that we talk about...
Most times it is worth making a complaint. However, at a Hotel I stayed at in Dorset the proprietor to this bed and breakfast establishment was clearly not interested in her guests. She made the mistake of placing two couples who did not know each other at a rather small table slightly larger than a whist table. We arrived at the same time as the other couple and both gasped at this lack of...
Today our bodies has returned from our holiday but our spirit is still lingering in the coach halfway between Birmingham and Bath. I feel sorry for people who have to jump into work with day after they arrive back from a holiday because it is such an environmental and spiritual shock. Today we did virtually nothing. It was raining so I decided to light our log fire to raise our spirits, not that...
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