Sep 5
This blog should have been called "A Murmuration of Starlings" - if only Col had managed to get a photo of the giant flock of starlings as it zoomed past our window, skidded to a halt on the green, and took off again like a rocket. If that is the little family - mum, dad and two generations of offspring - teenagers and toddlers - we used to see on the beach before we lived here, they have done well.
Didn't make it to the Field Service on Saturday - not at all well - feel very bad about it - but did manage to do a couple of answers to emails about the Bible. Got to the Meeting at the Hall on Sunday - lovely talk, of course. But still felt too bad to manage any calls after. So far my email witness continues at least.
Odd day here - one moment its sunny - the next its pelting down. We went to the supermarket this morning and loaded up with goods. Other than that it has been a cleaning, washing and ironing day, and I have done my studying. We are doing a close study of the Book of Acts, as we can learn so much from the way those earliest Christians witnessed.
Anyway I have called this blog "Without a Map", as a tribute to Meredith Hall's memoir which I have just read and re-read. I can't recommend it enough. I hope to write to her and say so.
She was forced to hand over her son for adoption in the Sixties - she was an unmarried schoolgirl mother - and mother and son did not see each other again for twenty one years. How they both dealt with what happened during that time is amazing, most especially in the case of her wonderful son.
Its upbuilding too, where it could have simply been a Misery Memoir.
So this blog is about families I suppose.
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