The next time I was to encounter religion was when I joined the army. Yes. When I was 16 I went into the British army as a bandsman. Thinking about it now, it seems like a really dumb thing to have done, but when I was coming up to leaving school, it sounded like my best option. But that’s another story.
Probably the first contact I had with the church was when I must have been about 13 or so. I played the trumpet in the school band, and a few of us had been asked to play a fanfare at the C of E for the visit of a Bishop one evening.
I’m not sure, but I suppose my mother must have believed in something. She had gone to a Catholic school in London when she was a girl; her mother had evidently been terrified of the nuns!
Nobody seems to talk about it: the translation of resurrection. Personally for me, it should be of no great importance, but for most in the Christian community it seems to be a making or breaking point.
Just spent the Easter weekend down in Ravenna and then a visit to home of Raffaello, Urbino.
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Life Getting Too Much This week is supposed to be carnival time, so in all rights a school holiday here. But as ever nothing can be so simple. I’m sort of half busy, with the schools being closed in Switzerland, and so a good part of my week has been on hold. However, rather than …
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It doesn’t really make any difference whether you know or don’t know anything about what core values are, we all have them, like it or not. Your core values are what is important to you and what makes you tick. A set of beliefs about how you interpret the world and how you feel and then act as a result; more often than not completely unbeknown to you!
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