Kyrie Eleison

I am getting married in march next year and I was thinking of what modern songs would be suitable for a lively c of e wedding in which most of the guests won't be christians. Any ideas?

"Closed off from love
I didn’t need the pain
Once or twice was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts to pass
Before you know it you’re frozen

But something happened
For the very first time with you
My heart melts into the ground
Found something true
And everyone’s looking round
Thinking I’m going crazy

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

As I haven't posted I just thought I would let people know about the great flood of July 20th. I have just started working at Boots Opticians as the new pre-registration optometrist so I went to work in the morning on the bus. The weather was awful, torrential rain that has been falling most of the night but thankfully I got to work just fine. At lunch time the rain was still falling and I heard reports that one of the main routes to my village on the outskirts of Cheltenham had been cut off by flooding. This was the bus route so the buses were no longer running. It tried ringing my parents who were also in work in Cheltenham but read through my sister who was at home that they would pick me up at 6 o'clock. My team leader who lived nearby offered me a lift home early because of the flooding but I declined the offer because my parents said they would pick me up. As the day went on the rain continued and more and more staff left early. I was on the late 6pm shift but at about 4.20 I was told the store was closing early so people could get home. Then I managed to contact my parents who said they would pick me up at 5pm. After waiting for them I joined them in the car and we began to explore the various routes out of Cheltenham to Bishop's Cleeve and Woodmancote. As we were told that Presbury and the Racecourse areas of Cheltenham were closed due to flooding we decided to try Swindon village. When we got there we found a van with the water up to it's windows, so we assumed that route was impassible. Dad decided to try a road through a little village called Brockhampton. That was flooded but we though we could wade through it. However, as we were approaching on foot we met a man who told us his van had just been swept away so we decided that it wasn't a good idea. So we went to Sainsbury's to get something to eat and regroup. After some deliberation we decided to try and get to Tewkesbury and get to Woodmancote from the northern side as we knew all the other routes were impassible. Then we joined the Tewkesbury road which was pretty slow and partially flooded but ok for our car which was a small Peugeot 206. After some time we decided to join the M5 heading north to Tewkesbury. When we joined it was slow but moving but as we headed north it got worse. By the time we left it it was about 9pm. We turned right of the junction and very slowly headed through Ashchurch towards Woodmancote. After passing through some very deep puddles we were told by a volunteer that the road was only passable for lorries and completely blocked further down nearer Woodmancote. So we turned arount and contracted one of my mum's friends who lived near Tewkesbury who offered us to sleep on her floor, saying that she had already 4 other people staying. Heading into Tewkesbury we found the road completely blocked and a small car like ours upto its roof in water. So we turned around and parking Tewkesbury school. At this point the M5 was closed north and south bound so all the traffic started to come off the motorway. We got out and decided to walk/wade about 30mins to my mum's friend. But as we got closer we realised that we would have to swim. So we saw a pub and decided to go in to get a drink. The pub was fully of lots of 'merry' people. At 12am they had a proper 'lock-in' as the doors were locked to prevent the rising water coming in. At this point we excaped through a side entrance and with shoes and socks removed waded through the car park to higher ground. We walked back to the car and decided to stay the night. Dad couldn't sleep so he went to check on the M5 which by this point had become completely flooded and had abandoned cars everywhere. Lots of helicopters went overhead all night. At about 3 I decided to join my parents in Tewkesbury school which had been opened as a refuge centre and had a cup of tea. At about 5am Dad who was still awake had heard that the Ashchurch route to Woodmancote had improved so he joined the queue of traffic out. The roads were a lots better but there were stills some bad flooding. Thankfully we managed to make it back home by about 6.15am and I went straight to sleep. I was woken at 8am in time to get ready for work. The roads around Woodmancote had much improved by this time and we forded through most of them in to town in order to drop me off for a full day of work.

Just wondering if there were any optometrists on aboutlife?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ articles/news/news.html? in_article_id=460983&in_page_id=1770I just read this article about Jonathan Edwards loss of faith. It is really sad to see a man whose faith in God has collapsed along with his marriage.

Here is a video of quotes from famous scientists that also believed that Christ died for them. These men were battling against atheists and shallow-minded people from within the church in their time. Times have not changed. These men are among a few of the thousands/millions of Christians throughout history who have chosen to use a gift for science to reveal the mysteries of creation and bring about changes that would improve the lives of God's children everywhere.

Gareth has finished his exams, praise the Lord!

In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. Then God said:
And there was light.

I was thinking the other day about soviet communism. It was a seemingly perfect system in which all possessions were shared between people. It appears to me to be very biblical,

All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
(Acts 2:44-45)

People always need to worship something. In Capitalist America and Europe people worship money. It drove them to greed and made them unhappy but it worked. You can never have enough money so the purpose of living (to earn money) was always there.