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25th August 2022 What do we do when our heroes, our family, our friends, our ancestors turn out to have made mistakes? Deny, minimise, distance ourselves, tear down statues, defend statues? Whatever community or cause we identify with, we will find people throughout its history who have got it wrong, we will be let down …
24th August, 2022 In the Lady Garden at Wells Cathedral stands a statue of Jesus. He holds his crown of thorns behind his back and gazes up at the Cathedral. The garden is peaceful, Jesus a picture of serenity and you cannot help but want to sit or wander a while in contemplation. As I …
22nd August, 2022 It’s not supposed to be difficult.Life, love, faith.None of it is supposed to be difficult.The songs tell us that “love hurts” , that it’s sometimes hard, that we must work at it.I disagree. In fact, it was the big lesson I learned in my first relationship after my abusive husband; that loving …
20th August 2022 We are all on a journey towards Christlikeness. With the same guide. Our good guide knows each persons strengths, and weaknesses. She knows where each of us needs to be challenged to grow and where we need to stop and rest. She knows we all start from different places, and will choose …
15th August 2022 Words of love.Words of wisdom of advice,Words of guidance, words that give life.PickedPluckedRemoved.StrippedSquashedDeformed.Twisted and mangled, torn and abusedFormed into bullets, made into pain.Against their willTheir beauty destroyedWords that give life falling from the mouths of those who seek deathInsults hurled, spirits crushed, hearts hardened.Death.
11th August, 2022 You know you don’t have to debate with the ridiculous expectations the world places on you as a woman.You don’t have to justify yourself.You don’t owe anyone any explanations for who you are, what you do or why you may choose to say no. Those words of judgement, that make you feel …
27th July 2022
25th July 2022 Beautiful yet poisonousThey tangle themselves around their victim.Gently pulling them underDeeper into the darkness, beneath the earth.Lungs filled with sweetened soil,Eyes blinded with floral notesAs death blissfully creeps.Its softened barbs disguised as love.The warm embrace of unadulterated hate,Spoken softly as eloquent words of death
26th June 2022. Sitting on a wall, looking out to sea, headphones on. In a world of her own. Or at least trying to be. She looked about 15 or so and the boy, balancing on the wall, clearly getting on her nerves looked a couple of years younger. I assumed he was her annoying …
17th June 2022 A pastor in `Texas has sparked outrage recently by saying gay people should be lined up and shot in the back of the head. Reading the commentary on this on the internet I noted how quick those who believe that being gay is sinful were to distance themselves from this guy, with …