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"They do say, that staying in, is the new going out." [Eastenders]

The amount I am shut in, I must be the best travelled person in England!

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Don't ya hate it when…

Don’t you hate it, when someone speaks to you, who you know you  know, or have known, yet don’t now have a clue who they are? This happened to me today, a woman I know I know, as I was getting out of the taxi spoke to me, I know some years ago, I used [...]

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Don't ya hate it when…

Don’t you hate it, when someone speaks to you, who you know you  know, or have known, yet don’t now have a clue who they are? This happened to me today, a woman I know I know, as I was getting out of the taxi spoke to me, I know some years ago, I used [...]

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Don't ya hate it when…

Don’t you hate it, when someone speaks to you, who you know you  know, or have known, yet don’t now have a clue who they are? This happened to me today, a woman I know I know, as I was getting out of the taxi spoke to me, I know some years ago, I used [...]

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Matters indifferent

Some people, well-intended often, have voiced to me that going t oa hymn singing church, (if there was a Reformed Church period around these parts) was a small price to pay for sitting under the ministry.  Yet to me its a matter of conscience. You don’t have to take part in something physically, to seem [...]

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A Mighty Fortress

When enemies seem to encamp all about us in various forms, or shapes or shifts, or even the enemy within, as I think we all have our inner demons that can be a bigger enemy than any Goliath., David’s song of praise in 2nd Samuel 22, is a pattern for finding refuge in  the fortress that [...]

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Suffering for Christ

These words by John Welch, spoke to me today, when I am at least in part so alone, for holding to the principles contained within the Covenanted Reformation. Welch had some wise words: They were written during the time Welch was waiting trial for treason, but rather than death, suffered banishment, finally.

Who am I, that [...]

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Lamentation

"The day has come when history and poetry give the glorious sufferers their well deserved praise.  The national lyre of Scotland has within the present century sounded its sweetest notes in honor of the men who ‘lived unknown till persecution dragged them into fame’."—David McAllister, Poets and Poetry of the Covenant. (1894).

 

Wherever we sojourn and [...]

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I used to believe..

I used to believe in my former afflicted states through life, which even then was more than most folks will ever expereince, that, life wouldn’t always be like that, it had to get better. Now, I just believe… yet its kind of  a detached hope as far as the here and now. I used to [...]

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Two Countries divided by…

There is a famous saying, most commonly attributed to Winston Churchill, though it is also equally attributed to Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, but the saying is and its talking of the differnences between Great Britain and America: "two nations divided by a common language".
Now, forgive my skepticism, but I think the divides [...]

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