by Julie Turner | Dec 26, 2021 | What's Happening
At our Christmas Day service we enjoyed singing a variety of carols (old and new) and looked at the carol ‘O Come, All Ye Faithful’. One of the oldest carols (probably written in Latin in the 12th century), this is always sung as the penultimate carol in...
by Julie Turner | Dec 24, 2021 | What's Happening
For some, Christmas Eve is a flurry of activity: shopping, cooking, cleaning. For me, Christmas Eve was always about celebrating my father’s birthday (usually with a meal out), watching the carol service from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge on television and...
by Julie Turner | Dec 23, 2021 | What's Happening
I’m thankful for the fact that December was always the month for birthdays in my family. My uncle’s birthday was on 19th December, my mother’s on 23rd December and my father’s on 24th December. I grew up celebrating birthdays in December and the fact that we have...
by Julie Turner | Dec 22, 2021 | What's Happening
There are times when decisive action is the correct response to a situation, but there are also situations beyond our control where it’s better to wait before leaping to action. Some of us have personalities which are action-based; others are more cautious and...
by Julie Turner | Dec 22, 2021 | What's Happening
One way we can improve our thankfulness is through practice! (Practice makes perfect, they say, and I’ve certainly found that we never improve in any area of our lives without effort and persistence.) One song tells us to ‘count your blessings, name them one by one’,...
