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Changed Priorities

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Seeking earthly treasure, status, ease and leisure brings no lasting pleasure … thus the best things losing … Seeking first God’s kingdom… eternal life unending. …Matthew 6:33

Clever cockatoos

[The picture is of an ordinary parrot, as I hadn't got one of a cokatoo] Have you heard of the clever cockatoos who've somehow found they can often use …
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Seeking a new beginning, refuge

If you have to leave your land because of war or tyranny, or basic freedoms banned; walk many miles and cross the sea and ask asylum here to be from...

… but is there?

Is that a fact, or your desire? … Maybe you feel he maybe is, but do not like the way that this world is, and so reject if so a God who does not choose to do …
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1542 of my comments have received 1588 Great Feedback votes

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Amazing how such ideas can

Posted on Wed, 30 Oct 2024

Amazing how such ideas can fascinate and grip people, and be all-engrossing, even though with no clear idea of a happy life afterwards from their ideas either, even lonely.

And yet distracted from even investigating the offer of real,...

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Posted in Who Wants to Live Forever?

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I wonder how many costumes

Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2024

I wonder how many costumes are kept and reused these days!

All will rise at the last day! (saints and the unregenerate). But for now we just have that 'faded imprint left in still faithful miinds'.

Actually the term 'unregenerate'...

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Posted in Al Hallows Eve

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I can't communicate with

Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2024

I can't communicate with these people.

I didn't think of that as referring to his inability in the past, but, at present. Provoking thought about the concern a child (before or after death) might have for parents left behind. (But...

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Posted in Ghost Story

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Thank you. Jenny. When we

Posted on Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Thank you. Jenny. When we have wet dark weather, it's good to remember the beauty we see when the sun shines again! Praying for your hospital visit. Rhiannon

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Posted in Tumultuous Autumn

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These things have varied over

Posted on Tue, 22 Oct 2024

These things have varied over the many years! and now much depends on the parents and teachers. I suppose schools and kids like an event, and an event depicting 'frightening' things is something a bit different and can invovle making costumes and...

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Posted in Frightfully funny?

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Thanks for your comment,

Posted on Tue, 22 Oct 2024

Thanks for your comment,

I think there were at one time pagan sacrifices and appeals to whatever 'gods' might be listening as the winter darkness was drawing in. There are also links to some events of wanting to remember those who had died...

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I heard someone yesterday

Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2024

I heard someone yesterday speak of an early job he had in insurance. He got on well, but could never meet his quota of 'extras', which would have got him a bonus. Chatting regularly with his bosses, this was always mentioned, as to why he had...

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Posted in Linkedin Island

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Haven't seen you around

Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2024

Haven't seen you around awhile! I hope you are both OK.

Quite an interesting idea. Not that I feel any land is perfect! But there are big lands that are vast geographically, but parts sparsely populated, And as for what the standards of...

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Posted in Terra Incognita

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Loved your description of the

Posted on Sat, 12 Oct 2024

Loved your description of the stormy weather, and felt a trace envious of the experience! Though it does also make us appreciative of calm – and light! Rhiannon

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Posted in Who Needs Orkney Anyway

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There was a thrill in those

Posted on Thu, 10 Oct 2024

There was a thrill in those early days of a limited number of bricks and inventing. I remember a visitor and my husband delighting to make something new for my eldest (at that time about 5 I think) while he was asleep, to see in the morning!...

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Posted in Wee Plastic Hats Off to Ole Kirk Christiansen!

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