Tag Archives: Jesus
Pentecost and First Fruits.
Waking up in the middle of the night on Easter Monday I reached for my Living Bible to hopefully relax me back to sleep. Having finished the book of John and the resurrection story the night before I started to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, bold, brave, Feast of weeks, First Fruits, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jewish celebration, miracles, Pentecost, Shavuot
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Jesus and the Passover
If you read the Gospel accounts of Jesus and His disciples celebrating the Passover one or two questions might come to mind. Sometimes it seems we think of Jesus in Christian terms and forget that He was also a Jew … Continue reading
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Tagged celebration, deliverance, God, Jesus, Jews, Lamb, Last Supper, Passover
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The Sapphire Ten Commandments
Just recently I was watching a telecast during which the Pastor referred to the Ten Commandments being written on tablets of Sapphire. He then went on to show us a piece of blue translucent material to give an idea of … Continue reading
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Tagged God, Jesus, Love, Moses, Precious Stones, sacrifice, Sapphire, Ten Commandments, thoughts
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‘The Comedy of Errors’
My mother ofter laughed when re-telling a story of something that had happened to her saying “Oh it was a comedy of errors.” She was a great storyteller and would gesticulate with her hands splayed while she was relating her … Continue reading
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Tagged eternity, God, guilt free, happy ending, Jesus, liberty, Shakespeare, story telling, The Comedy of Errors
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Not everyone is going to like you.
When we children were upset about someone not liking us or saying unkind things to us my father would say very philosophically. “You can’t please all of the people all of the time you can only please some of the … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptable, Aesop, confident, created, God, inadequacy, Jesus, John Lydgate, unique
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Favourites – It’s a mystery!
Some time back I watched the two-part Docudrama, Code of a Killer? The true story of Sir Alec Jeffreys who developed techniques for genetic fingerprinting. The programme documented how Sir Alec’s almost untried theory was used to capture the murderer … Continue reading
Favourites – Friends and Neighbours
Every October as the bluebells under the apricot tree finish flowering, the Pigface on our drive bursts into bloom. If you look upwards to our neighbours garden directly across the road you will see the same flowers in her garden. … Continue reading
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Tagged caring, friends, Jesus, kindness, Lockdown, Love, neighbours, sharing, smiling faces
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Favourites – ‘Bee intentional’
Today I watched a Landline episode on Bees and it reminded me of a conversation I had with Yvette a couple of years ago. “I’ve just read about Bees, it’s so sad. Do you know they only live for 4 … Continue reading
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Tagged bee hives, Bees, God, Honey, intentional, Jesus, nectar, pollinate, work, workers
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Favourites – ‘Am I my Brother’s Keeper?’
When the Germans were bombing Kent with Doodlebugs back in June 1944 my brother David, who was not yet 2 years old, grabbed me from my cot and took me to the Morrison Shelter in our kitchen. “I’ve got the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1944, Brother's, Brother's Keeper, Cain and Abel, Doodlebugs, God, HMAS Voyager, Jesus, Morrison Shelter
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Favourites – ‘You Can do it’
I have a favourite hat for walking in the mornings. Knitted by my sister Celia over ten years ago it is perfect for me. It so happened that one day I was complaining about the cold and she suggested that … Continue reading
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Tagged Can do, Celia, Edgar Albert Guest, Glaucoma, God, Jesus, knitting, never give up, pixie hat
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