One response to “Prayers on converting a Civil Partnership into a Marriage”
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I am in a Civil Partnership in London, and am a dual US/UK citizen. I have also just turned 62, and am applying for my US Social Security pension. One question on the form is: Are you married? We are intending to convert the partnership into a marriage at the earliest possible time but are legally not married at the moment. Thus this question is complicated. I am a kind of Schroedinger’s Cat: both Not Married and Married at the same time. I have tried to explain that to the US Government, but am unable to discover whether I have done so successfully.
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Sunday Sermon -12 August 2007
I’d like to begin this morning with a poem. In fact it is something that one of you quoted to me this week. I remembered the fragment and wanted to look it up. “The Place Where We Are Right,” by Yehuda Amichai From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow in the…
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The Walker
Just back from the GFT. Saw The Walker the new Woody Harrelson flick. Lauren Bacall tossed her head in caustic fashion. Kristin Scott Thomas bit her lip over and over again. And Mr Harrelson spent most of the film being a deeply unattractive man. Turned out to be a better film than you thought it…
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From the place where we are right
There is a link here to the poem that I used in yesterday’s sermon. Its the one that begins thus: From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring.
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100 things
Prompted by writing the last post, I’ve just updated the 100 things post.
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