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The Envelope: God's Provision
The early 1980s were a scary time for parents with toddlers. A week did not go by without the media reporting children developing Reye’s syndrome, an often fatal condition following a viral infection like the flu or chickenpox.
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A Child of Great Promise
After two miscarriages, Liz and I quietly began to accept the prospect of being childless. Then, in 1974, we received the good news that we were with child again.
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A virtuous Woman
To be young a bride your beauty must not be of jewels gold adorning and braiding hair, beauty is vain charm is deceit, favour is fickle, beauty fades...
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Recollections
Do you remember when...
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A Proper Sunday
I love a proper Sunday. No intention of going anywhere. Proper coffee and slow-cooked sticky sausages for breakfast. Pottering in your jammies. Minor...
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5 Smokin'
This might be the next one off the production line, I'll let you know. Image made at Canva.com The first 2000 words are here https://www.abctales.com/collection/prospero-vint
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One
One imagines that one can rise up above the earth and fly among the stars and planet rounds and rounds to further still, the milky way and way beyond...
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A BUTTERFLY, PT. 2
A BUTTERFLY , PT. 2 He had parked his car on the fifth floor, which meant a lift to the ticket machine on the fourth and then an escalator up. With...
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A BUTTERFLY, PT. 1
A BUTTERFLY , PT 1 Like being in a fish tank. That’s how he would have described it to the shop assistant, had she asked. But she didn’t. Judging by...
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Zen and the Art of Calorie Counting
May 29 th was National Biscuit Day. At last, a meaningless national day I can embrace. From January to March, I attended a weekly class run by one of...
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Guilt washed away
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] One of those thieves crucified acknowledged his guilt and his shame. He’d even reviled, mocking Jesus, but...
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A Wedding Day To Remember
A Wedding Day To Remember By Paul McCann Gerry and Joanne nearly never made it to their own wedding . On the day of the wedding Gerry was walking out...
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Arduous
One's best success comes after their greatest disappointment- Henry Ward Beecher Arduous Twist and turns, no doubt cycles in process, growing pains...
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In the mix
She was on the spectrum Hated waiting never laughed She scratched her arms With a ball point pen And laughed at the scars She could articulate The...
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Says what?
Here’s a puzzle on a building, How and why and when fixed up? Can you work out – read its message, no, not Latin, nothing deep. Bottom right , then...
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Watching You, Chapters Seven and Eight
Chapter Seven Black loafed into the car park, deserted already, but there was a rusty portable rectangular frame enclosing a message chained to the...
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I Am A Sinner
An old poem revamped and re-submitted.
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Bus Pass Has an Adventure
In Scotland, bus passes are available to everyone over sixty. This summer I thought I’d take mine out on some adventures, like the ‘Famous Five’. ‘...
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Heavy as earth, light as straw
You thought it would be different. More eye-catching? Like athletes are welcomed in their hometown when they have won a gold medal at the most recent...
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1:5:2 Fate (Part 1)
Roaring. The engines above howled as Char and Destiny double checked their limits. Data on the screen, they sent it down to The Slingshot team below...
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