tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-247894 2009-12-24T15:45:40+00:00 Hoping to be a different person tomorrow from the one I am today, and to keep on growing and changing...but not too much around the waist line!!! TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c7a9f53ef0128767cc304970c 2009-12-24T15:45:40+00:00 2009-12-24T15:47:34+00:00

We have gathered tonight to remember and to celebrate the first Christmas, to hear the story of the babe of Bethlehem, whose unlikely birth was foretold by the ancients, and surrounded by mystery and wonder. And it is an awesome...

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Earlier this week the BBC reported that despite our romantic notions of Christmases past, snow is a rarity in the UK at Christmastime, and yet I am sitting in my study preparing for the days services watching the snow flakes...

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My friend Mike posted this very helpful article (by Phil Wyman) today via facebook, it is written for people who will face Christmas alone, and offers many helpful suggestions for making the season meaningful. For too many Christmas serves to...

Sallys-Journey http://sallysjourney.typepad.com/sallys_journey/2009/12/surviving-christmas-amongst-family-and-friends.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c7a9f53ef0128767417aa970c 2009-12-22T08:20:57+00:00 2009-12-22T08:20:57+00:00

His conception …questionable, his birthing rough and coarse, his crib a feed trough… He was a refugee, a poor man's child, a tradesman… …yet there was a power about him that drew many to their knees… …one day, out in...

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Over the last week and a half I have been involved in leading nine different services and events where the Christmas story has been told in poetry, song and more traditionaly throgh readings and sermons/ meditations. These have been for...

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We hear the story so comfortably these days; Of how an angel visited a virgin brining her news that she was going to have a baby, and no ordinary baby, this baby would be God's son, the long awaited Messiah....

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I am currently thawing out following a morning of carol singing in the centre of our village, it was market day and we were raising money for a local hospice, a good number of carolers gathered and we gathered a...

Sallys-Journey http://sallysjourney.typepad.com/sallys_journey/2009/12/the-spirit-of-giving.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c7a9f53ef012876697370970c 2009-12-19T07:53:51+00:00 2009-12-19T12:21:57+00:00

Do angels visit anymore, would we know if they did? Would we recognise them, as God's messengers, or dismiss them as cranks? (well you should've seen what they were wearing!) Is our sight so veiled that glorious visions mean nothing?...

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