Our little ministry is always quaint, never predictable and intimate. That is why I love it. About 10 of us meet once a month on the first Sunday. I found myself thinking about Sunday’s address in the Methodist church afterwards, turning it over in my mind. If I had wanted to be critical, I could easily have listed several things that did not quite work — there was repetition, a slightly...
The day began on a fairly low note. I decided to cancel the exploratory session on Thursday the 19th in Torquay because I felt it was more important to get a feel for the whole Torbay area, and if I want to write a book on it - as I do - then I need to maybe take a longer term view. I am only in that area for four days, so I think I can very well fill my time with sniffing around the place and...
Matthew 6 25-34 Worry about necessities 25 “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than...
This was one of the most helpful summaries I've had for some time and helps me to balance compassion with the need not to interfere with others or try to run their lives, however good the motive. Brian Jung’s Radical View of Empaths Carl Jung took people with extreme emotional sensitivity seriously at a time when psychiatry dismissed them as unstable or delusional. He believed empaths weren’t...
I corresponded with Chat, as the plans I had for a visit to Torquay and work there next month seemed, on reflection, to be overambitious, so I decided to cut back and regroup. This is how CHAT GPT responded when I told it this morning. I agree we should not rely on tech too much, but this certainly helped clarify my position. You’re trying to do two jobs at once: arrive as a person and arrive as...
I recently watched a video that claimed to rank the countries most affected by immigration, placing France first and the United Kingdom second. Whether such rankings are reliable or not, they prompt a broader and more personal question: how does anyone maintain a sense of peace of mind when it feels as though familiar social, cultural, and economic structures are being steadily weakened? Rising...
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