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sudden turning

I have struggled to find enthusiasm for Christmas this year. There have been little things in the way: I’ve been ill more times in the past month than in the past two years previous. Nothing serious. Just one little annoyance after another. I have therefore been constantly behind, aware of [...]

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prepare ye

Pew sheets done, readers captured, spices ready for mulling.  Now time for the sermon, perhaps??

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signs of the times

Ah yes, now I know it’s Advent.
My printer has been humming away for hours, there are pew sheets and would-be pew sheets flying about everywhere, and I have a dozen paper cuts (but no sermon as yet).
Advent Carol Service tomorrow — Sunday– at 3 pm. Wonderful ad hoc choir drawn from our remarkably talented [...]

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landscape of dreams

The camel came early.
Four weeks before Epiphany, and there he was, wandering through my dreams.
I had begun on foot. A young child, allowed to wonder the city while his mother worked. There is a magical street in that city, full of enticing shops and exotic flavours, treasures beyond compare. And for [...]

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options

Love Blooms Bright is alive and well:  a quiet reflective blog for Advent.
But if you want ‘doing’ instead of ‘being’ take a look at St Silas’ Advent blog.
Isn’t the diversity of the Piskie church wonderful?

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bloggers wake

Last chance to get in on the Advent blog love blooms bright.
Poems, thoughts, meditations, photographs. Things you create yourself, or things you would like to share.
Those who have already agreed to take part, you should get an email from me later tonight with some notes on logistics.
We have 6 people so far, and could [...]

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preparations

Not fully recovered from yesterday’s illness, I spent the day fishing for Advent resources.  And it occurred to me that we might start an Advent blog — poetry, photographs, short reflections either of your own, or by others.  If seven people were willing to take part, we would each have to offer only four things.
I [...]

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