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Bread and Porridge
As a child, I had a very old book of stories that was handed down from my family, the cover of which was shaped like the trunk of a tall and narrow tree, The Tall Book of Nursery Tales1. Inside were…
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A Stalk of Celery
Today I’m thinking about transformation, not that sudden transformation like what happened to the Apostle Paul as he walked from Jerusalem towards Damascus (See Acts 9), but a continuous transformation that grows more gradually. As I explored the idea of change,…
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Mind the Gap
The signs are everywhere in the London Underground. They pop up at every tube station– that ubiquitous and efficient message to Mind the Gap between the edge of the platform and the doorway to the train. The phrase has become a…
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That Stairway
People of my generation cannot hear the phrase Stairway to Heaven without thinking of a certain song by Led Zeppelin and the ending, iconic phrase, “…and she’s buying a stairway to heaven. “ I have no idea if Jimmy Page and…
