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Archive for January, 2006

My Darndest Duty

I love the way Francis Schaeffer, with typical wisdom and simplicity, puts it,
“What is a Christian’s duty in life?
He has only one basic duty: to exhibit the existence of God and to exhibit his character in the midst of a rebellious world.
What is the character of God?
God is holy, and God is love.
…When the people of [...]

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My Lousy Day

Maybe it was the Arsenal playing shite and losing 1-0 to a one-trick Everton.
Maybe it was my father rubbing my nose in it again, despite knowing next to nothing about football, despite losing another 5 or so kilogrammes after his latest operation, despite the fact that he has little to no time left to salvage [...]

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My First Day

The first day of the rest of my life.
Well.
 To put it a little less dramatically, the first day of my first whole year as a fully-trained teacher, with my first form class thrown into the mix as well.
Whoa.
 And my first post in close to two months.
 It’s shaping up to be a day of many firsts, i reckon. Many more to [...]

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