OK, get ready for another moan and rant ! Why are clergy not allowed to have Bank Holidays off ? I’ve just come through a very busy Christmas Day, spent part of Boxing Day getting ready for Sunday worship and all along I thought that as this was a bank holiday I might get some [...]
Only one and a half hours to go and it’ll be Christmas. Am I excited ? You bet I am ! At the end of the day I’m a little child at heart. Yaaaaahh. Seriously, just in case I don’t get near the computer to blog tomorrow (as I’m expected to work !) I want [...]
I like this prayer I came across recently……….. “God- Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference”.
Every year the President of the Methodist Church, Rev.d David Gamble, sends out a message to the Methodist people, through the pages of the Methodist Recorder. I have recieved permission from the Press Office to publish it here………… “I wonder how we shall remember Christmas 2009? I have to admit that I don’t always remember Christmas [...]
Interesting article in the Times today, re. the role of an Anglican Vicar and how he/she is subject to the claims and actions of the congregation. See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6965670.ece The worrying part isn’t whats happened, as I probably don’t have the full story, but the way in which it highlights the role of clergy in general. So [...]
Every now and then you meet someone special who touches your life in a seemingly small way, and when they pass on you realise what a big gap they’ve left. One of the joys of Ministry is meeting such people; Horace, one of my church members, was such a person; cheerful, ready to banter at [...]
Do you ever get that feeling of being `in` something but not necessarily `part of` it ? This week I’ve been reflecting on this as someone who has been partially deaf since birth. When at school I had many friends but somehow didn’t always feel as though I was particularly close to anyone; on reflection this was probably because [...]
Held a special invite evening at our Rotary club tonight, where we were all encouraged to bring a guest along. We had a `normal` Rotary evening with an excellent talk by people from the charity Hearing Dogs for the Deaf. I spent much of the evening conversing with the visitor who was deaf by signing; [...]
Ripley Chapel, this year gave their Harvest gift of money to a Derby project called `Street Pastors`. It was a scheme I had heard of but hadn’t known too much about. Shortly afterwards I had the opportunity to travel to Cliff College to hear a morning presentation on the work of the National Street [...]
Just waiting around now to leave (11.00 p.m.); I’m very aware of the lateness for Alex who will drive for the next 4 hours and then have to wait until 1.00 p.m. when Ellie’s (Alistairs girlfriend) plane arrives. As we’ve been waiting we’ve heard that Anngela has falleen off her cart and her horse has landed on [...]
