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Lucy Foster's avatar

Have you read the poem ''Good Friday and the magnolia tree' by David Scott?

Good Friday has blown stark away

With the last of the spirit's puff

And the final.hmn over and done.

Heavy with death, I come out of church

Smack into the full shopping sun.

Inside,so much talk of dark;

Outside, the first ice cream of spring

Is being licked under the magnolia tree

By two lover's tongues simultaneously.

Not that I would have it any other way,

For Christ's tree also blossomed as he hung.

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Clare Whitney's avatar

I think I hurt myself, really, but you do what you think is right at the time. No point regretting sliding doors moments. However-menopausal women are at the heart of ministry and it's great that you've celebrated that. I'm thinking about the 'uncontrolling God' at the moment. My garden is way beyond control. Left to God is would be even more wild and free. We cannot contain God's love, we just have to work with it. In another garden on Thursday night and again on Sunday morning, we see that love in action. My thought for the day! Every blessing and prayer that you find Christ's presence and love in your garden. X

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