A Blog in Two Parts

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Part OneOn the road, on our road,the bus stop, his bus stop — lights flashing —Garda cars, ambulance, stopped traffic.Someone crying out, lying on the road,choking fear. ‘It isn’t your […]
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What next, if?

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What next, when…?  ‘Jesus came to make people free. He wanted us to choose goodness freely. He did not crave the base worship of the slave. But free choice can […]
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Bubbles

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Bubbles. We live in them, so they say. We convince ourselves they are real and that this is how life is. We talk to people who share our point of view, we […]
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Acting in Hope

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We are not hopeful.  We wait.   We wait for horizons to open, for ideas to flourish. For plans and dreams to come to fruition.   We wait, trying to console ourselves with the concrete, […]
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2020: A Developing View

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This blog started life like a little maggot-y thing. Small and moaning and grim. Trying to pretend it was logical and thoughtful and dispassionate and realistic.   I didn’t like it […]
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Bedtime

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It’s bedtime. Again. This becomes a bigger thing when actual real life starts again with actual real school in an actual real building and actual real work with actual real […]
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Faith, Hope & Love

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Faith, hope and love. Probably the three most integral concepts of our church. 1 Thessalonians just overflows with church love. It seeps out of every sentence. You only need to […]
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That Thing

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The Scenario I don’t suppose you spend endless time arguing with yourself. Do you? I do.  In my head there are at least two people. They rarely agree. They like […]
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