Category: Writing
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I have been using WordPress, on and off, for a few years now. I publish now and then but not consistent enough to build a satisfactory following. The problem I have had is what area to I want to focus on, to write about. I fear I have been too generic. But I believe I…
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We have a God who is always speaking. In fact we have a God who never shuts up. He is, for want of a better word, a chatterbox. He talks to us through His creation, His Word, the Bible, His people and more importantly he has spoken to us through His Son, Jesus Christ. He…
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You know, in life, I have found there is a big difference between wanting to do something and actually doing it. For instance, I really like flying (and have done a bit of flight simming) though having that passion to fly (for real) and actually going out and getting a pilots license are worlds apart.…
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‘…but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength . They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.’ Isaiah 40:31 The above Bible verse is thought to have been written in the middle of the 6th century B.C. but following…
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By Lewan Dell I’m just a lowly wooden thorn With all my brothers share Upon the briar, this ‘Salem morn Of glorious flowers bare. ‘Tis but a humble existence, Some, for protection, say, To crimson berries in attendance, On whose fruit our future lay. But one day my brothers and I are thrown Into the…
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The Greatest Showman – it’s the inside that counts (1Samuel 16:7) I recently went to watch The Greatest Showman, what I considered to be one of the greatest screen musicals I had seen in a long time. Not since the film version of Les Miserables have I been moved by music and story. It’s no…
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Image source: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/361413938825059128/ I have just had a pleasant encounter with a celebrity, who is known on British television for a programme called Coach Trip, as I visited the library this morning. Yes @brendan_sheerin was in there learning his lines for his role in this years pantomime at Hull New Theatre and given that I have had some experience in…
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What follows is something I have been working on as a result of an assignment for the degree last year. It is loosly based on my childhood although while some events actually happened (the opening scene, to my shame, is an example), I have fictionalised many others. Names, however, have been changed. I would love…
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The astute observer will have noticed I have been away for a while. There’s a good reason for that, a reason that is still as much a part of the journey I started following graduation. It wasn’t planned but I have been on a year long abstinence from technology, internet, smartphones etc, so I could…