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Jun 2020
Broom Parish Church will be open for private prayer and meditation on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, commencing Tuesday 23 June, from 10.30am. until 11.30am. All welcome...
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Jun 2020
Dear All When I started to write my ‘daily thoughts’ it was primarily a response to our separation due to the closure of our church buildings and I didn’t think I would be doing so for as long. At that time there was understandable, considerable uncertainty and anxiety as no one was quite sure what was going to happen with the spread of COVID 19. Thankfully things are much better now and our churches are free to open for private prayer and contemplation. It is expected that there will be a further......
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20
Jun 2020
Dear All It saddens me greatly when I see how much damage we human beings have done to our planet. Environmentalists have been telling us for years that the seas, rivers, forests and the very air we breathe are all at risk unless we take serious measures to reverse the trend. Thankfully we have awakened from our slumber and are making significant changes, all to the good. This lockdown, oddly enough, has unintentionally given the planet a bit of a rest. Not only have we damaged the planet itself but many of......
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Jun 2020
Dear All Why is it that some days, for no apparent reason, we feel ‘down’? It’s a feeling we are all aware of I’m sure. Sometimes the weather affects us and we might, without knowing it, suffer from this aptly named Seasonal Affective Disorder (S. A. D.) or we just don’t feel good and accept the fact that there will be days like this. Some songs reflect our changing moods too don’t they, for example, ‘Mama told me there would be days like this’ in the words of a song by the......
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Jun 2020
Dear All It’s my guess that many of you will have a particular bible verse that you remember with ease, perhaps one remembered from childhood in Sunday School or in an R.E. class. One teacher I remember from school was a stern, joyless individual who wore a foostie old baubled cardigan in navy blue, who ‘taught’ the subject because somebody had to. It wasn’t her first subject, was it anyone’s first subject? and I don’t think she liked it. We hated it. From that, you will deduce that we would all rather......
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Jun 2020
Dear All As we know scientists all over the world, in a major, collaborative and international effort, are working relentlessly to find a cure for the current pandemic. To date, only yesterday, in fact, a remarkable breakthrough was announced. There is now, and widely available, an inexpensive steroid currently being used for the treatment of other conditions that have been found to be very effective in the treatment of Coronavirus. Although it is not a complete cure many lives will be saved as the search for a comprehensive one continues. Through the......
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Jun 2020
Dear All We’ve all heard and used the phrase ‘the tables have turned’, or ‘turning the tables’ and we all know what it means, but where does the saying come from originally? It crossed my mind that it might have something to do with Jesus in the temple overturning the tables of the money-changers and merchants, but this is quite wide of the mark. The saying has nothing at all to do with Jesus in the temple, this, however, is what we are considering in our thoughts for today. Why did Jesus......
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15
Jun 2020
Dear All Last night, early morning, I sat and watched on TV a programme, ‘Who killed Jeffrey Epstein?’ It was a disturbing and revealing documentary about the lifestyle and exploits of a man who befriended, duped and abused many he came in contact with, men, women and young girls. All this over many years, and all with seeming impunity. His apparent ‘above the law status’ caused and still causes many to question how all this could have happened. Many in positions of power have serious questions to answer and will need to......
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14
Jun 2020
Dear All A man told his wife one day that he was ‘homesick’, she replied, ‘but this is your home’, ‘yes I know’ he said, ‘I’m sick of it’. Maybe we are all a bit ‘homesick’ just now. We’ve been at this lockdown now for three months and being at home for unusually long stretches is not quite normal for most of us. Understandably we’re a bit ‘sick of it’. We hope it will all end soon. It will! I’m not prone to travel sickness. I don’t know about seasickness though as......
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13
Jun 2020
Dear All In the space of a few short months, the focus of our lives has changed quite dramatically and relatively speaking, quite suddenly, in ways we wouldn’t have reasonably thought or imagined. We have moved from speaking about ‘Brexit’, remember that topic? to the new crisis subjects of Covid19 and the ‘Black lives matter’ movement, ignited with the televised, brutal and chilling murder of George Floyd. Not only do we now have a pandemic but along with it, a global protest movement highlighting the unjust treatment of black people. Until there......
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