Pause for Thought – 9 December 2020

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Psalm 1 Philemon 1-21 Luke 14:25-33 Prime Minister Herbert Asquith once spent a weekend at the Waddesdon estate of the Rothschild family. One day, as Asquith was being waited on at teatime by the butler, the following conversation ensued: “Tea, coffee, or a peach from off the wall, sir?” “Tea, please,” answered Asquith….

1 Samuel 8:1-22 Her father was an alcoholic. Her mother worked most all the time. She had little choice. Her brother had recently been killed. Things were chaotic at home. She felt she had to get out. So she decided she could finish school later. After all, the guy she was dating had asked her…

Matthew 9:9-17 Thirty years ago this week the last long national strike began, when Arthur Scargill led the miners out. A big part of English culture certainly used to be that the most respected and honoured manual worker was the miner. I suspect that if you lived in Surrey, the miners’ strike didn’t make a…

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There was a newly married couple who arrived very late indeed at the hotel for their honeymoon, after a terrible journey.  It was really late, and the couple were so tired after their horrific journey that they just wanted to go to sleep.  They were shown to their room, and it was smaller than they…