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Facing Chronic Illness in a Christian Way
The second paragraph to the first subheading, The situation, advises us that "Part of a Christian response to illness is not to let it prevent you from serving others, though your service must adapt."
That statement causes me to consider the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/10/2024

Edale, Derbyshire. England
Thank you for your comment below Sep. 2, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day question.
English Wikipedia describes Irish breakfast tea as a red-colored black tea, likelier Assam than Ceylon.
It likewise designates that tea as so strong as ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/10/2024

Into Thin Air: the Shepton Mallet Mystery
The third paragraph to the second subheading, Suggestions about what happened, advises us that "One possibility is that there were people in South West Britain who were skilled in quick abductions, a skill that they had honed in snatching black ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/10/2024

Who Goes to Heaven
Thank you for your comment below on Jan. 24, 2024, in answer to my previous question Jan. 23, 2024.
Online sources generally approach French fancies as sponge cake covered with buttercream and icing. Perhaps they describe quite sweet ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/10/2024

Magna Carta, the facts, myths and legends briefly
It interests me that Magna Carta is a three-way interaction of barons, Church and king.
It impels me to mull why no societal money- and power-holders between barons and king merited mention.
Might King John have been leaving viscounts, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/10/2024

Why I am a Christian
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous question.
Liminal places appear quite recognizable if they associate with land and water, light and dark, sky and earth.
And yet dark components can be part of religiously, spiritually ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/10/2024

Messages of Puss in Boots
The caption You don't have to wear your own clothes to look better to the sixth subheading, The clothes make the man, amuses me.
At the same time, the in-text image above it by Henri Thiriet (Jul 4, 1873-Jun 10, 1946) appears among my favorite ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/10/2024

Why I am a Christian
No. Liminal places are the zonescwhere different elements meet. Light and darkness, land andbwaterbsky and earth.
frankbeswick, on 05/10/2024

The Mystery of the Tregaron Neanderthals
Very little is known about most Celtic saints. L,
frankbeswick, on 05/10/2024

Why I am a Christian
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observations and questions.
You discuss religiously, spiritually friendly, thin-veiled liminal places elsewhere.
Does the White Slope equate to a liminal place?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

The road to "Witch Hazel and the Witchy Magnet "
The second paragraph to the first subheading, Perfect for Halloween, advises us that "We also wanted to show that witches aren't all bad as they are so often depicted in books."
The aforementioned intention appeals to me as one to whom Glinda ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

Messages of Puss in Boots
The captions account for a favorite part of this wizzley.
In particular, the captions You don't have to wear your own clothes to look better under the sixth subheading The Clothes Make the Man and If you can't beat him, eat him under the ninth ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

Sizergh Castle, Cumbria - Northern England
Perhaps my favorite photo here is the stumpery.
It's so environmentally friendly to include tree stumps even as the latter kindle environmental health through their roots nourishing the underground soil food web and providing above-ground life ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

The Mystery of the Tregaron Neanderthals
Thank you!
English Wikipedia associates the place name Tregaron with "town of St. Caron." Catholic Online associates St. Caron with that place's titular saint.
But the above source communicates only the feast day March 5, without any other ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024

The English Meadow
Hungry herbivores eat grass , silage and hay, and in the Orkneys some sheep eat sea weed.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024