So Why Are You Carrying This Burden?
Its amazing what you see on the road when your out and about around Bo'ness. I'm staggered at the weight of things that get transported on our roads. Here's a steam engine being pulled by a lorry. The lorry is having a rest in a lay-by outside Bo'ness.
Got me thinking about the shear weight of troubles and worries that we all transport around in our lives. We literally carry rubbish in our heads and feelings in our hearts that should have been dumped years...
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Went out for a meal tonight and on the way back I couldn't help noticing that the local countryside is really quite magnificent.
I had a really creative day yesterday. Putting together the themes and topics of the sermons and services as we plan ahead for the next nine months. It a great feeling when you've been able to find a format and a number of themes that all fit into each other. I just hope the congregation enjoy what I've decided work on. I'm also looking...
The post code lottery came to Bo'ness last weekend. I believe around 1.5 million pounds was distributed among my fellow towns people. Although I don't do the lottery myself, I do wish everyone who won something well and hope that they can enjoy the windfall.
Someone once said to me recently, so if you don't do the lottery will you accept lottery money, and my answer is yes. You see I believe that the lottery is a bit of a tax on the poor. Too often it is the...
Tonight we had our India group committee meeting. It was an opportunity to try and disburse some the funds we've been gathering for the Indian Projects. There is just so much work to be carried out and not enough resources to go round. I've chosen this picture to describe how I felt tonight. So much work to be done and so many opportunities to help but just mot enough money to go round. I took a picture of these street boys the last time I was in India. The best they...