12 responses to “How to be single at Christmas”
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[…] single or otherwise alone at this time of year can present its challenges. Kelvin has some very wise words to say on the […]
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It is not the prospect of spending Christmas alone that I find difficult or scary. It’s managing the family expectations that we have to be together at Christmas, because that’s what we do (as it was in the beginning and shall be for ever, Amen). The bad weather this year meant that there was a good reason for not travelling, so I was able to spend Christmas where I wanted to be. And lovely it was too.
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O Rex
O King of the Gentiles and their desired one, the Cornerstone that makes both one: Come, and deliver humanity, whom you formed out of the dust of the earth. Amen. To make divinity out of desire – this is the very stuff of a faith worth believing in. God’s love is always erotic, always looking for a response,…
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O Oriens
O dawn of the East, brightness of light eternal, and Sun of Justice: come, and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. Amen. Thousands of people are reported to have applied for tickets to see the winter solstice sun shine into the Newgrange tomb this week. (20 tickets only are…
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Priests Alarming
Here is one of the pieces that was read at the first Civil Partnership ceremony in Edinburgh yesterday. It is by Walt Whitman.WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going—North and South excursions making,Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers clutching,Arm’d and fearless—eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldiering, thieving,…
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Civil Partnerships
It was quite touching to see the first Civil Partnerships being registered today in Edinburgh. Rather more dignified than the goings on in Belfast yesterday. Interesting to compare the contribution of the churches to this. Over the water, Ian Paisley’s lot turned out in force to shout pretty vile slogans at the couples going to…
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