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George Morrison
March 16, 2024

St Patrick

St Patrick                         Word on the Week                     16th March 2024. It’s tomorrow that St Patrick kisses the stone!   His kiss transforms the land from its winter hibernation to the green fertility that makes Ireland the Emerald Isle.   After this Winter’s deluges of rain, he may need to blow his warm breath over it to dry up […]

March 9, 2024

From the River to the Sea

From the River to the Sea         Word on the Week          9th March 2024. It’s the slogan, chanted by Palestine/Hamas supporters, seeking the total destruction of Israel who inhabit the land from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea.   It is matched by the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s intent to annihilate Hamas!   The conquest of […]

March 2, 2024

Counterfeit Relief

Counterfeit Relief            Word on the Week                     2nd March 2024. Life in this life can be hard.   It can offend our desire for fairness.  Things happen that should never have been allowed.   The apparent randomness of illness and accidents.    Then, in some cases, the premature-ness of death. To combat these thoughts many turn to the drug […]

February 24, 2024

To God be the Glory

To God be the Glory            Word on the Week                24th February 2024. Seeing God’s hand on a work is not always apparent until time filters out the incidental from the important.   So it has been with Jon and Sandra Blackwell’s search for God’s mission field for them.   The initial decisions came slowly.  First the […]

February 17, 2024

Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny                      Word on the Week               17th February 2024. Alexei Navalny died this week.   He is the most recent and perhaps the best known of Putin’s political enemies.   He loved Russia and held to a vision of a future time when his beloved Russia would be free.    The 47-year-old blogger had survived poisoning attempts […]

February 10, 2024

New Life

New Life                           Word on the Week                     10th February 2024. One of the joys that light up our spinney is the bursting forth of the snowdrop. They have to penetrate a mat of ground ivy to reach the light of day.  These plants which the poet Thomas Tickell, who lived in Glasnevin, Dublin, (on land which […]

February 3, 2024

Brigid 1500

Brigid 1500                     Word on the Week                      3rd February 2024. In creating a Public Holiday as a ‘thank you’ to a long-suffering population during the Covid epidemic the Government decided on 1st February.   Traditionally this is the first day of Spring.   It is also celebrated as St Brigid’s Day.   This year is claimed to be […]

January 27, 2024

Lost Things

Lost Things                      Word on the Week                     27th January 2024. One of the features in this life of ours that will increase as the years go by is the propensity to lose things!    The other thing is the gravity of the losses seem to increase in importance till finding the lost thing becomes crucial to our […]

January 6, 2024

Pilgrim Paths

Pilgrim Paths                   Word on the Week                     6th January 2024. This week some of our younger members of the family enjoyed the rigours of a few days in a cottage in Donegal with time to explore the beauties of that County in Winter.   Their pouring over maps on their return reminded me of a time when […]

December 30, 2023

Reflection 2023

Reflection 2023                    Word on the Week                30th December 2023. Let’s do it differently.   Instead of a Crystal Ball let’s use a mirror!   Let’s see if we can find faith.   The image reflected back spells ‘doubt’.   The Bible says “the righteous shall live by faith” (Romans 1 verse 17) so we had better find faith.   […]

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