Accommodate, Acclimatise, Assimilate

Accommodate – give space for, allow room for someone or something. Acclimatise – process of getting used to new conditions. Assimilate – take on the aspects, behaviours and values of the new environment often resulting in resembling the environment. Those are the thoughts that go on in my head when I consider these three terms. […]

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Aiming Arrows Accurately

Have I told you how much I love the TV show Arrow? I don’t watch a lot of TV at all, but I was very much taken with the plot and characters in this story. I particularly like the development of the lead character Oliver Queen from a young playboy relying on his parents’ big […]

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Altering Awkward Approaches

The worse thing is – they mean well. You know what I mean. Those people with annoying, irritating aspects of character but aren’t deliberately being so. They don’t mean it, but it’s there. The worse thing is – they mean well. What helps tremendously in engaging with these aspects is recognising some annoying and irritating […]

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Admitting Anxiety

Why is she like that? It really annoys me when he behaves like that. How will these bills get paid and I am able to do this that I want to do as well? What if we don’t meet the targets this month, will that mean that our job is threatened? I am told to […]

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Appetite

A number of people I know and indeed love enjoy eating cheese. Notice. I still love them. That’s truly amazing, because I don’t like cheese. At all. In fact I’ve been known to say I despise the stuff. So to still love those who enjoy something I hate is testament to the mercy and grace […]

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Having A Meal

Someone pointed out to me that the Garden of Eden was the first restaurant in creation. That makes God the first waiter and chef. Talk about quality customer service, God was thus the first five star restaurateur. Imagine all the fruit in all the garden at his disposal. The only way to get kicked out […]

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A Word On Maturity

The hymn O To Be Like Thee becomes harder to sing the more you realise who you’re singing about. I do enjoy hearing the bluster and bravado of well meaning, gung-ho followers who like Peter will impulsively say they will do anything for Jesus. I enjoy hearing it. I don’t question the sincerity, I don’t […]

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A Word On Opportunity

People would do anything to get in. Poor, abused, hungry, destitute, alienated, damaged and afraid. Told for ages that only the elite can succeed, that only the rich, intelligent, resourceful and well connected will only truly thrive. Injustice and inequity rampages unchecked. They will be the trodden, they will suffer first. So if you pointed […]

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A Word On Restoration

Hanley Park located in Stoke-on-Trent is a pleasant Park overall. More or less. Kinda. When I walk to the train station I tend to go through the park and do enjoy strolling through it. Yet the Park is not in peak condition. Some families are hesitant to walk through certain areas of the park due […]

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