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Poem-Communion
Poem-Communion
by Valerie Anslow
A poem composed while running the Great North Run for Alzheimer's Society. Communion Click! Smile. Look this way. Click! Celluloid snap shots of moments Suspended in time. Open the pages into the past and remember. Memories caught in sepia, monochrome, colour. Open up the file of…
Poem: Saintliness
Poem: Saintliness
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Saintliness The loss will hurt, but memories linger on and when the pain begins to ease and tears are drying – even if only for a time – the legacy that love has left begins to demonstrate its value, as words and looks and shared experiences drift through the troubled mind …
POPPIES AND SNOWDROPS - Prayer: O God, the memories are so painful
POPPIES AND SNOWDROPS - Prayer: O God, the memories are so painful
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: O God, the memories are so painful O God, the memories are so painful. If only I could have helped. If only I could have shown him the depth of my love. If only he could have known … O God, if anyone understands the anguish of love and loss, you do. You watched your son d…
Great God your love has held our lives
Great God your love has held our lives
by Andrew Pratt
Hymn - Great God your love has held our lives NEW HYMN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER Great God your love has held our lives across the years down to this day. Your constant presence held us fast: remain with us we plead and pray. We watched the …
Recovering from Depression - Emotions of the past
Recovering from Depression - Emotions of the past
by SPCK - Katharine Smith
Emotions of the past Part 3 Body, mind and spirit Recovering from Depression A companion guide for Christians Pandas and thunderstorms Ever since I can remember, whenever there’s a thunderstorm around me, in real life or on television, a picture comes into my mind of the soft bla…
Nothing Too Religious - Prayer:Time flies
Nothing Too Religious - Prayer:Time flies
by Marjorie Dobson
Prayer: Time flies. Time flies. The years slip away. Spring soon turns to winter and the days become shorter in the passing. Never-ageing God, when we begin to count the years it seems impossible that so many have passed. How did they slip by so quickly? Is the birth certificate …
Poem: Regret
Poem: Regret
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Regret A child who becomes an enemy is still a child. And only the most hard-hearted of parents would not feel some measure of regret and sorrow when the death of that child is reported. The ties of love, even though shredded by conflict and anger, leave threads of emotion …
Job for Everyone - Perish the Day I Was Born
Job for Everyone - Perish the Day I Was Born
by SPCK - John Goldingay
Perish the Day I was Born Job 3: 1-26 I never knew my Uncle Billy, my mother’s younger brother. The year I was born, he was killed in combat in the Second World War in North Africa. I did know my Uncle Ray, the husband of my mother’s older sister, who was also a combat soldier in…
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