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45 Weeks Till…

February 8th, 2010 No Comments

I’ve learned that the best time to think about any regular or annual event is straight after the last one, while the successes and lessons are fresh in your mind.
I made awesome notes about next Advent and Christmas at West last December, for example, and now we have our good friend Robyn Mellar-Smith here as [...]

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Rocks in the Jar 1

January 9th, 2010 1 Comment

In their book First Things First Stephen R Covey, A Roger Merrill and Rebecca R Merrill tell a story that has become part of our life at West.  We’ve done the rocks-in-the-jar demo several times since January 2009 and it has become a significant image for lots of us.

If you don’t know what this is [...]

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Walking into a New Year

January 6th, 2010 2 Comments

Joyce Rupp is an international treasure.
On Sunday at West we used a short reflection on starting a new year with God, extracted from Joyce Rupp’s ‘The Road of Life’ [forgot to say: it's in a book called May I Have this Dance?, which Tracey owns and can lend].  The piece I read out is here [...]

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