I had miss calculated his retirement time. I had forgotten that with leave to be taken he would be gone soon and my visit to the police station was possibly the last time I’d see him. “How long have you been in the constabulary?” “30…
It happened again recently. I hadn’t experienced it for quite a while. (I don’t get out much per- haps! 😉 ) It was a pleasant conversation with people I knew a little and who knew me less. General conversation about all sorts of things…
I chuckled and smiled and just thought that this world is an amazing place! I heard in my mind a few bars and the deep voice of Louis Armstrong singing ‘What a wonderful world’. It was night and I was driving so I couldn’t…
Eric Bogle’s song ‘The Gift of the Years’ is about an old Aussie soldier returning to a ceme- tery in a foreign land, 75 years later, talking to his friend who had died. In the song, he says: And the country that you died…
I was challenged this week, through the work of political philosopher Hannah Arendt, to con- sider hope as something that is negative to people because it is a fundamentally passive thing where one looks to the future for some sort of help and renders…
I didn’t see it coming and I didn’t even think about it but when I read a book review I realised that a new type of novel was coming out – the pandemic novel. I recalled the popular myth that the board game Monopoly…
Last week our grandson who turns 4 in a few days had a big smile on his face, in the photo, pointing to his green band aid on his arm. He got more ‘superpowers’ and he didn’t cry at all! Yes, he had another…
I was fascinated listening to – and marvelling – at a podcast about how neuroscience is trying to help people who suffer from such things as post traumatic stress disorder. Currently the chemistry used to help people affects all of the brain but if…
We have resumed Ascension’s Bible Study and we tend to ‘scratch the itch’ in terms of the topics we study whether that be biblical, confessional, doctrinal, ethical, historical, or practical – what do people want to study, know about, talk about? I was asked…
What’s funny? A man walks into a bar. Ouch. (You were expecting something else?! 🙂 ) I have chuckled at the bulletin notice – sometimes seen on church noticeboards – ‘Don’t let worry kill you. Let the Church help.’ 🙂 No doubt we’ve heard…
