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Roof Repairs
Helen and I, along with a number of other parishioners from St Swithun’s, were privileged to attend the service of Thanksgiving for Martin Macpherson on Wednesday in Emsworth. Close to 300 people, many former colleagues from the Royal Navy as well as golfing friends, gathered with this family to listen to moving tributes of his… Read more
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Which flower are you?
A few weeks ago, I attended a Lay Ministries Celebration Day at which the theme was “Harvesting Hope”. The keynote speaker was Carrie Myers, the National Church Lead for Lay Ministry and during her address she asked us all to identify which garden flower or plant described our personality best. The suggestions were as far-ranging… Read more
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You Will Find Your Welfare
By the time you are reading this we will know the result of the General Election and which political party (or parties!) will be leading us in the coming years. However we feel about the result, it is now the task of us all to pray for our new government. When I first began attending… Read more
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Spider-Man
In a recent Marvel film, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-Man’s girlfriend MJ (played by Zendaya) sets out her somewhat gloomy philosophy of life. Near the beginning of the film, she comments, ‘If you expect disappointment, then you can never really be disappointed.’ There is a certain logic to this idea, and we might be inclined… Read more
