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Author: stuart
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How to transfigure a poppy seed
For Transfiguration Sunday: Oh Peter, when will you learn? A booth is a resting place of twigs and branches woven together to form a temporary dwelling. Like the willow domes perhaps in the garden of our schools. I like to call them ipods. you sit inside one and tune in to the inner music. Hence…
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A heart for creation, or just for ourselves?
Today is Creation Sunday. I’m not going to tell you how wonderful it is to be outdoors or tell you how much the psalmists sing the praises of the created and creator. But I want to ask a simple question. Do we have a heart for creation or do we only have a heart for…
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The Needle Gate affair
There is a gate in a wall not far from Brynrefail, Let’s just say that it is rather on the narrow side. Only the very slimly built shall pass, and, sideways at that. There are a number of things you could do to enter that footpath. You could, if you really wished to get through…
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Race No. 1 of 40
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The Presents Arrive: – What is it exactly?
End of Christmas? Christmas Two – ‘the forgotten presents’. The fashionably late join the party. Well no not really for unlike the birth of Jesus, the epiphany is not a moment in time, but a moment of clarity. For those who like etymology – you’ll be pleased to know that clarity shares it’s Latin root…
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it's a slow incarnation
The Slow incarnation (or should that be Sloe – the Vodkin was good this year…) We’re done once again for another ol’ year so pack up the crib, put away the stable. Take back the presents that weren’t quite able to fill the need of that ancient cradle and begin the new diet to lose…
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Time to join the story…
Christmas is a time of storytelling. Essentially though that is what we do all the time. Be it face to face – (some hope these days,) or in a letter which you might get at a push at Christmas – or by many and various social media options that appear to be a part of…
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St. Nicholas, the Shopping Frenzy and a box of goodies
This box came from Bedwellty, a Parish in South Wales as part of the Church in Wales The Time is Now conference. So as I’m speaking it will come around and you can help yourself to a simple gift from St. Nicholas. It was doomed to end in violence, but either they didn’t care or…
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Beyond These Shores
It is 20:20 Vision Sunday here in the Church in Wales today which counts most of us out as the majority will not have as good eye sight as that, and it probably counts the rest out and most of us out a second time for wondering what exactly does 20:20 Vision mean and how…
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Chair
It’s just a chair, but made from old floorboards, very simple and straight forward. Front leg which becomes the back is 3′ long the angle is 15deg at the bottom. The seat can be as wide as you like (need) and the back rests are the same width. The other legs are cut at 30deg…