Talking Yorkie

Category: Thoughts

  • A Time for Everything

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    Sharon Holland
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    I was given this cross-stitch as a gift some 20+ years ago. Whilst I appreciated the fact that someone had taken the time to create this and put it in a lovely frame, I didn’t like it. So I said, Thank you very much, then put it in a box in the spare room, which…

  • Does Willpower Exist?

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    With the New Year now well under way, I’m wondering how everyone’s getting along with their New Year’s Resolutions. We’re going to get fitter, go to the gym five times a week, stop smoking, eat more healthy food, quit scrolling social media etc, etc, bla, bla, bla. Unfortunately, statistics indicate that almost half of New…

  • Not Everything New for a New Year

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    These are my thoughts that I shared this morning at church before we shared communion this morning. There’s a popular Bible verse often quoted at the start of the year. You might have already read it on YouVersion, on some other Bible app or in your daily devotion. It’s Isaiah 43:18 ‘Forget the former things;…

  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

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    🎶 “Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow”🎶Christmas really doesn’t have to be chocolate box perfect or resemble the fake world that social media portrays. All that matters is being with someone you love who loves you in return.🎶”So have yourself a merry little Christmas now”🎶Sharon 🎄xx

  • Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

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    Grief is a path that every one of us has to walk along at some point in our lives, for most of us more than once, and for some, many times. Or maybe grief is just another section of our life path, along which we start walking the first time a loved one dies. Perhaps…

  • Every Season

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    I wrote this blog a year ago and posted it on my temporary blog site. Here it is in its second edition. The first edition was titled ‘Autumn’. But, as I am completing this second draft, I feel that a more suitable title is ‘Every Season’. I’m not a fan of autumn. I don’t like…

  • Love Unfinished

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    2 Today I am writing the second stanzaWhich has somehow found its way to the beginningWe kept our promiseWe have taken Mum and Dad homeAnd now the sat nav is taking us through the centre of BradfordAnd right past the Alhambra TheatreWhere Dad took me to see Swan LakeMany years agoAnd the memory is coming…

  • Family and Friends

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    Family and Friends❤️I have been with a few of my good friends this week. One of them, I haven’t properly caught up with for two decades. Yesterday, we were at our friends’ daughter’s wedding and our son was a groomsman. It was a beautiful wedding. This week has highlighted something for me: Family and true…

  • Our Mum

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    To remember Mum on her birthday, I am sharing these very personal words, which I wrote for, and read out at her funeral last month. (I have removed names for privacy). There is only a 3% chance of both parents developing dementia.  Some people might say that my sister and I have been unlucky. Those…

  • Crossing the River

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    Many times, we had walked from Rest Bay to the edge of the Ogmore River and back. It’s a pleasant 10 or so miles along the beach and the coastal path. We had occasionally looked at the river and discussed the possibility of one day crossing the river. After ‘careful’ planning and checking the tide…