A crucial part of every sermon is the example you don’t use. But blogs are more forgiving. So, today’s red herring that filled my prayer time and was mentioned not-at-all in church:
Advent as High Dive.
I spent most of my childhood summers by the pool. One of the rights of passage was being old enough (and [...]
Archive for November, 2008
high time
Posted in Advent on 30 November, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Advent 1
Posted in Advent on 30 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Love Blooms Bright has begun for 2008. Within the first few words, Rosemary’s post led to the sharp gasp of awe that means Advent is here.
just fine here
Posted in blog on 28 November, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Molly prepares for the bishop’s visit.
a few days early
Posted in blog on 27 November, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So today, it is Advent.
Well, I know it is not really, but since I don’t get Thanksgiving today, we must have something. All week I have been hassled and hassling over what needs to be done, and one of the major stressors was an address to Parliament for next week that really needed to have [...]
immigrations
Posted in blog on 25 November, 2008 | 17 Comments »
For once, the immigration rules have not turned against me. Or rather, they have, but I have slipped under the wire.
I am in the last phases before (hopefully) getting indefinite leave to remain. So, once I pass the ‘Life in the UK’ test and pay the government another £1000, I should be safe.
But, if I [...]
new plan
Posted in blog on 24 November, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The next time I delay/ cancel time off because there is too much needing to be done, remind me to go away anyway, and just take the work along.
Time, now, to start the first thing on my list for today — having completed the dozen or so things that were not on my list, but [...]
early perceptions
Posted in blog, learning on 21 November, 2008 | 6 Comments »
As I drove across the hills today, I was pondering how our sense of God begins to take form. Not the conversion experience per se, but the fore-runners that only become significant in retrospect.
When I tried to remember ‘first impressions’ two things came to mind:
First, sitting on the (slightly prickly, horse-hair filled) blue velvet couch [...]
worlds apart
Posted in blog on 20 November, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Those of you who read Blethers will know that we have had the Russian Choir in Dunoon this week. It was a lovely group this year: younger, quieter and more timid (and therefore much easier to cope with) than the more exuberant group that I encountered two years ago. The first group to arrive at [...]
covenant
Posted in church, prayer, worship on 18 November, 2008 | 7 Comments »
No, not that one.
The Methodist one.
I’ve been pouring through piles of liturgy books and re-reading the Methodist covenant service. The covenant service is a peculiarly Methodist thing. I realise that it covers much of the same landscape as my version of the Maundy Thursday Vigil — i.e., what happens in the silence as I pray [...]
folly
Posted in blog on 17 November, 2008 | 21 Comments »
I have been getting weary of having to walk round the house, radio in hand, to find a stable reception point. So, I thought I’d take the plunge and buy a digital radio.
It worked beautifully on the Western Ferry all the way to Dunoon. Then it abruptly cut out and will not recieve a thing. [...]
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