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Supersonic Cycling!
Today I began my training regime for my big summer ride. I rode 615 miles around Draycote Water!!!! No kidding - check this out: And if you look closely, I went all that way and didn't even make it home! I wouldn't have minded but it was a bit galling to find out I'd gone... Continue Reading →
The Kindness of Strangers
Earlier this week a had a lovely encounter in second hand shop that reminded me that where we can take small actions to help someone else, the effect can be out of all proportion to the effort. My second cousin had been staying for a long weekend. A whole generation below me in age, she... Continue Reading →
Can we be forgiven without saying sorry?
There is something missing in the gospels! I am shocked! So often we read the Bible so closely to see what IS there, it's not often that I am so forcefully struck by something that is NOT there. Yesterday I took a primary school assembly on ‘how to pray’. Using a teaspoon, I taught the... Continue Reading →
‘Call the Midwife’ and allow her to pray!
I have waited a week to comment on the last episode of Call the Midwife. I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone...but wasn't it brilliant? We witnessed a miracle of answered prayer and saw a 'prayer blanket' in action. I got very excited. I have knitted prayer shawls for years. I have given and been... Continue Reading →
What to do with a memory?
My mother has given me a vest. I am well past the age for maternal guidance on my underwear, but this is no ordinary vest. This vest is a memory. It is the embodiment of moment in time that Mum wants to be remembered, which is why, even given that it is completely useless, she... Continue Reading →
I may be gone for some time!
Or, in the words of Clint Eastwood, 'I'll be back'! I don't know which it will be. This is just to say I have had a bit of a battle with this wordpress blog site. It shut me out and now (by some miracle I don't understand) I've managed to log back in, I'm concerned... Continue Reading →
What would church be like if…?
What would church be like if this notice was put on all church doors and we actually meant it? We extend a special welcome to those who are single, married, divorced, gay, filthy rich, dirt poor. ‘Dydw I ddim yn siarad Seasneg’. We extend a special welcome to those who are crying, to new-borns, to... Continue Reading →
Skiing or Snowboarding?
Has anyone else noticed it's been trying to snow again today? It feels like a divine nudge to me - this morning God told me I needed to learn how to snowboard! Yeah right, like that's going to happen! I'd be a bit of baby when it comes to snowboarding. So there's no chance I'm... Continue Reading →
High or Low? Blending worship styles
As some of you will be aware I am a curate at Anglican church that recently underwent a huge change. At the start of this change two different churches in two different parishes became two churches in one parish. Then sometime after that through force of circumstance, the church belonging to the larger/charismatic/evangelical/conservative congregation had... Continue Reading →
