Puncture a human heart and it will bleed; pierce it spiritually and the result is tears.
Columba Stewart, Prayer and Community: The Benedictine Tradition
Mrs A and I have been watching Britain’s Got Talent. We got in to it at the end of the last series whilst channel hopping. We saw a young girl singing Ave Maria with the voice of someone far more mature in years. It was quite amazing.
This year we thought we’d watch from the [...]
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing.
Wm Paul Young, The Shack
Heard at Bramall Lane yesterday:
This is a health and safety announcement, this is a health and safety announcement. You may be hit by a ball.
There is probably a technical name for this and if there is could you let me know please? I think it is a reasonable assumption that behaviour can be changed by the very fact that it is being observed. So a football team can rally round and bring back a victory if the crowd gets [...]
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The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Cicero, 55 B.C.
A Christmas edition of this feature that I was reminded of when Mrs A and I visited the Christmas Shop in Lechlade this weekend. They were selling them as the original Swedish Angel Chimes. I didn’t realise they were Swedish in origin, but they must have been the feature of many households in the 1970s. [...]
Continue reading about Things I’d forgotten existed #2: Angel Chimes
