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| miracle 6 | | The book of the year in 2004 was ‘Eats, shoots and leaves’ by Lynne Truss.
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| miracle 5 | | I have alwqays loved travelling but I am not always the best traveller ....
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| miracle 4 | | Some months ago I told you about the Postwick Python. I was walking along the river near Postwick when I came face to face ....
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| miracle 2 | | wonder if you are the kind of person who often feels left out. Remember those days at school when they picked teams. You were the one that was left to the end, the one that made up the numbers.
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| miracle 1 | | Last Saturday my eldest son got married. There is now another Mr and Mrs Lawton about the place which seems, at the moment, a little strange and rather spooky in a very lovely sort of way.
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| kingdom | | Last Sunday I was talking about the Kingdom of God. It is one of my favourite subjects and something that Jesus talked about most of all.
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| letters | | Waiting for a letter was always an exciting thing. It really isn’t long ago that there were no computers and therefore no emails for instant communication.
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| nutrition | | The final characteristic of all living things so helpfully recorded for us in the acrostic MRS GREN or as some of the Key Stage 2 science revision books call her – MRS NERG – is nutrition.
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| excretion | | The sixth characteristic of all living things is excretion – we all get rid of waste from the body. In 2 Corinthians Ch 4 v 7 it says … we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
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| reproduction | | The fifth characteristic of all living things is that they reproduce. The female elephant will be pregnant for 22 months, the longest of any land animal.
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| growth | | The girl who lives down the road from us was 18 last Wednesday. When we moved into our street she was four. In just 14 years she has changed beyond all recognition
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| sensitivity | | As we explore the seven characteristics of all living things we come to the ‘S’ in MRS GREN which stands for sensitivity. All living things are sensitive.
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| respiration | | This is one of my favourite songs that we sing in the Vineyard. All living things breathe. We have lungs, fish have gills and plants have leaves.
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| movement | | As I write the sun has appeared for seemingly the first time in months. The temperature has reached double figures, the air is clear and there is a hint of warmth in the air.
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| offer | | The other week I was rushing around the home getting things done when my mobile phone rang. Of course, there is nothing unusual about that.
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| easter | | I wonder how many of you have had Easter eggs this morning. My guess is that it will be mostly children that will have had them,
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| growing | | I was visiting my father in law this week. During the summer I go over on a regular basis and cut the grass. It is one of my duties that I really don’t mind.
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| a day in the life | | Last Friday I was in London. I was on my way to a day conference at Holy Trinity Brompton. I was minding my own business and happily making my way onto Regent’s Street.
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| fine tuning | | When I graduated as a teacher from Southlands College in South West London I lived in Wimbledon Chase with a great couple who took me in and gave me digs.
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| shine | | There have been all sorts of mock Valentine type greetings over the years.
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| rings and halos | | When ITV first began to broadcast we were excited in our house. We thought, for whatever reason, you would probably need a special ariel to pick up the pictures but we when we tuned in our black and white set there were the pictures.
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| provision | | One of the things that really stands out in my memory as a child was the regularity of meals and their predictability.
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| a good story | | Most of us like a good story, whether or not it is true or has been made up. Stories are powerful. They can make us laugh, cry, be angry, feel powerless and they can also have the power to make you feel all cosy and warm inside.
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