Two roads diverged in a wood, and I …
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
More Than Just a Blog
I write more than just the blog postings that come with this site. I have other material that has come from the confusing world that surrounds me. In the main these are longer pieces and will take some time to read. So I have added more pages to this site for them. The current list of contents can be reached by clicking here.
Putting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube
A long time ago I heard of a preacher who used a sermon illustration based on a tube of toothpaste. Apparently he squeezed all the paste out and challenged the congregation to put it back into the tube. I think, because I wasn’t there, that his point was that some things that at first seem…
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Towpath Encounters
This week I combined two tasks as one. I need to walk and post a letter. My ‘nearest’ post office is about a mile along the towpath of the canal that passes the flat in which I live. It was a relatively mild, all be it cloudy, autumnal after noon and my ‘brisk’ walk soon…
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About the Law, Faith and Grace
A friend of mine wondered if he was a control freak and that set me thinking. In a sense we all are. We like to know the limits so that we can test them. We like to have laws to provide or reinforce our feelings of right and wrong. We like to have structure to…
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