Friends Now and Then

The concluding part of our brief series on my growing understanding of family is coming up soon.  Today though, I was reflecting on the nature of friends as I was looking to update me Facebook page. My relationship with Facebook has been interesting since I signed up to it about a year or so ago. […]

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Sometimes It Can Be Too Late

You should know by now, that I’m one to interrupt things just when the flow is on the go.  So we’re enjoying the whole family feel and there’s more things to say on the subject, but something happened today that meant a little bit of a change to the flow.  It’s still to do with […]

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First Contact

Recently I was celebrating the birthday of my dear old mother and I do mean ‘dear’, and I do mean ‘mother’ and I do mean … So I was on about her and in reflecting the significant role she plays in my life since the beginning I recalled again that she was the first contact […]

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Friend Of Sinners

It’s a Friday night and that usually means time to wind down and prepare to celebrate, embrace and enjoy another Sabbath. As I do so, however I reflect on some interesting social encounters of late.  As I reflect on them the label they applied to Jesus springs to mind about him being ‘a friend of […]

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Cover Me – 21:03

So following the relationship deal, there is something very important about following Jesus and that’s recognising that we cannot make it on our own.  Not only do we need others in physical and practical terms, it is reassuring to know that when you cannot do much you can still pray.  When I say pray, I’m […]

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MTP27 – Staying Close To Excel

Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbour who is near than a brother who is far away. (Proverbs 27:10) Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) One of the entries I’m looking […]

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