Yeah, but no, but yeah, but… Vicky Pollard does Easter Sermon for Easter Day – Sunday 20 April 2025 – All Saints, Kesgrave Text:  But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.  (Luke 24v1) God give you peace my sisters… Continue reading Yeah, but no, but yeah, but… Vicky Pollard does Easter – A Sermon

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 40 – Holy Saturday  To Read: I wanted to say more, a whole lot more, but she wasn’t listening any more, just smiling.  The days burnt up like giant candles, and time melted, ran, and congealed into useless and hideous lumps. Two days after the funeral I… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 40 – Holy Saturday

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 39 – Good Friday To Read: It was a beautiful sunny day.  The street was full of kid noises.  Laughter drowned the sounds of marching feet, when suddenly the world fell to pieces.  One scream killed the laughter.  It was Jackie’s.  I turned around in time to catch her in my… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 39 – Good Friday

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 38 – Maundy Thursday  To Read: ‘Fynn, I love you.’  When Anna said that every word was shattered by the fullness of meaning she packed into it.  Her ‘I’ was a totality.  Whatever this ‘I’ was for Anna was packed tight with being.  Like the light that didn’t fray, Anna’s… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 38 – Maundy Thursday

Time hastens; therefore do to-day 
Whatever kindly deed you may.
Time flies, suns rise, and shadows fall; 
let it go by, lo! love is for ever over all.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 37 – Wednesday in Holy Week  To Read: Every minute of every day Anna lived, she totally accepted her life, and in accepting life, accepted death.  Death was a fairly frequent topic of conversation with Anna – never morbid or anxious, simply something that would happen at… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 37

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 36 – Tuesday in Holy Week  To Read: MAYBE it was the fact that Anna and I had met at night that made the night-time so magic for us.  Perhaps it was because the night-time could be, and so often was, so surprising.  The multitudes of sights and… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 36

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 35 – Monday in Holy Week To Read: Anna searched for Mister God and her desire was for a better understanding of him.  Anna’s search for Mister God was serious but gay, earnest but light-hearted, reverent but impudent, and single-minded and multi-tracked.  That one and two made three… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 35

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 34 – Saturday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘Tich,’ I said, what were you asking God about real questions for? ‘Oh, it’s just sad, that’s all.’ ‘What’s sad?’ ‘People is.’ ‘I see.  What’s sad about people?’ ‘People ought to get more wise when they grow… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 34

Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories Show me the home of a boy, and I will prophesy concerning his future without a tremor of uncertainty. G. H. Hepworth O ye, who have young children, if possible give them happy memories!   Fill their earliest years with bright pictures.   A great historian many centuries ago wrote it… Continue reading Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories