by Truth Told | Feb 5, 2021 | Lessons from Life
Crying and Tears I’m thinking about crying. I’m not thinking about ‘actually’ crying right now at this moment, and I’m not anticipating crying anytime soon, but I am ‘thinking’ about crying. I’m thinking about tears and crying. I don’t...
by Truth Told | Jan 2, 2021 | Lessons from Life
Do the next right thing Recently, as a family we were watching the Disney film called ‘Frozen 2’. I hadn’t got around to seeing it, and as much as it was a film for children, there were several poignant moments for me. In particular there is a song that’s called ’Do...
by Truth Told | Dec 28, 2020 | Lessons from Life
Comfort and joy The well-known Christmas carol ‘God rest ye merry gentlemen’ has a line in it that says ‘Glad tidings of comfort and joy.’ It explains the Christmas message to us clearly. After a year where we have experienced the unforeseen effects of the Covid 19...
by Truth Told | Dec 21, 2020 | Lessons from Life
Real or Fake Every November we have that discussion in our family – are we going ‘real?’ Or are we staying ‘fake?’ What I mean is regards the Christmas tree. In our loft, we have a fake Christmas tree. It is uniform, standard, with built in lights, reliable,...
by Truth Told | Dec 18, 2020 | Lessons from Life
The spare baby jesus A number of years ago I worked in a Charity shop. One November morning, a lady arrived with some donations. She said that some of the contents of her bag might be useful for Christmas. So I lifted out several items, and then at the base of the...
by Truth Told | Oct 22, 2020 | Lessons from Life
Being Different As I was driving along in my car recently, a song came on the radio which made me tap my fingers against the steering wheel, smile, and sing along. It was a song by the Bee Gees, written back in 1978, called ‘Staying Alive’. Some of you might know...
