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Disconnected jottings by the Rector of "The Saints" in rural north-east Suffolk, England.
“The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognise God’s image in someone who is not in my image, whose language, faith, ideals, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image, instead of allowing Him to remake me in His.”
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
"You know you have created God in your own image when He hates all the same people you do."
Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott
About Me
- Rev. Richard Thornburgh
- Benefice of South Elmham and Ilketshall, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Comment etiquette
Comments are welcome, but they are moderated, and good manners dictates that anonymous ones will rarely be published ... unless of course they are flattering.
The Windsor Report
"The Windsor Report" is just a Report. When did it become like The Bible? The Covenant - why do we need another Covenant? We have the Baptismal Covenant. We have the Creeds. What else do we need?
Bishop Martin Barahona
Primate of Central America.
Bishop Martin Barahona
Primate of Central America.
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Things to Come
There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.
("The Life of Brian")
("The Life of Brian")
What I have written, I have written
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- Mummy's little Prince
- And talking of blossom and growth ....
- Blossom and growth
- I've had a visitor ...
- Steven and Tiwonge
- Camping enjoys youth renaissance
- Ooops
- How long, O Lord, how long
- The value of "hymns, psalms and spiritual songs"
- There's a lot of pain out there
- Malawi - home of the free
- Ascension Day 1993
- On the day of a Hung Parliament yet more vacillation
- Making my mark
- Frugal living
- This year's record
- British Democracy at its worst
- British Democracy at its best
- "May Day" Bank Holiday
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I look here from time to time
Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama
The Higher Truth
Wherever opposite views are held with warmth by religious-minded men, we may take for granted that there is some higher truth which embraces both. All high truth is the union of two contradictories. The truth does not lie between these two, but in a higher reconciling truth which leaves both true.
The truth will be found, not in some middle, moderate, timid doctrine, which skilfully avoids extremes, but in a truth larger than either of these opposite views, which is the basis of both, and which really is that for which each party tenaciously clings to its own view, as to a matter of life and death.
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson M.A.
Opening words of a sermon preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 10th March, 1850.
The truth will be found, not in some middle, moderate, timid doctrine, which skilfully avoids extremes, but in a truth larger than either of these opposite views, which is the basis of both, and which really is that for which each party tenaciously clings to its own view, as to a matter of life and death.
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson M.A.
Opening words of a sermon preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 10th March, 1850.
A thought
There comes a point in your life when you realize
who matters,
who never did,
who won't anymore...
and who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future..
who matters,
who never did,
who won't anymore...
and who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future..
Last Words
"As I grow older and older
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom."
attributed to Dorothy L Sayers
"It’s all been rather lovely"
John Le Mesurier
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom."
attributed to Dorothy L Sayers
"It’s all been rather lovely"
John Le Mesurier
What a lovely pheasant! There's a bird sanctuary about 150 miles from here and if one goes at the right time the pheasants are plentiful. We went out on the road that runs thru the sanctuary(the speed limit is about 5 miles an hour. As you pass by the fields, their heads pop up out of the grasses and they watch very carefully as you drive by. I never saw one that close up, tho.
ReplyDeleteThis one has a mate, and they both wander around the garden most of the day. Doesn't usually come up to the door though. Think he was seeing his reflection in the glass as it was so sunny. Lots around in this area.
ReplyDeleteHow gorgeous! Here in the desert our birds are mostly dust-colored (which is part of their cleverness in surviving), so it's nice to see such beautiful markings.
ReplyDeleteAre they as stupid over in the east of the country as they are in Dorset? I love how they stick their necks in the air, oooo it's a car I'd better get out of the way...sometime tomorrow will do....ooooo it's the vicar doing the mad sunday dash, let's slow her down.
ReplyDeleteJust as daft.
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