My first service in December was at the Stirling Spiritualist Church (SNU) on the 4th. A really cold night with the roads being icy, even though the authorities keep telling us that they are all geared up and ready to roll at the first sign of a problem. But the journey was as always well worth it with the warm reception we received from all at the church.
8th… The day of the great storm I was scheduled to attend the Lighthouse Spiritualist Church in Gourock. President Jenny Lafferty was determined that the church would open just in case even one person ventured out on that terrible evening. Even though the police were suggesting that one only travelled if their journey was necessary I was willing to make the journey if the winds abated by 6.15. They did not so I cancelled. I was a wee bit annoyed that the winds did drop a bit at 6.45 but the right decision was made as part of the road I would have travelled on was closed around 7pm.
10th… our second and probably last car-boot sale. There seemed to be more selling than buying but as like November we made a profit with Isobel’s craft and card and my framed prints. The profits from both days will go to charity
11th… I was off to the Dunfermline Spiritualist Church (SNU).
12th… A short journey to the Pollockshaws and District Spiritualist Church in Langside Halls, Shawlands Cross, Glasgow. Bill Thompson long time president of this church was absent because of health problems and I hope that he will soon be fit and well.th me through my website or they had contacted our churches. This turned out to take up the full day as more and more are seeking our help these days…
14th… Voluntary work and then giving a talk on Spiritual Healing.
19th… Being asked to wander around an old building to see if I detected anything on a psychic level. Nothing was detected but I will explain more about this early in the New Year.
Maureen and Archie were among the first people I met when I entered a spiritualist church for the first time. After chatting to this couple for only a few minutes it was as if I had know them for years and many others will tell you the same. Both served time as President at ASKS Stewarton and worked hard to make this spiritual sanctuary the success it was. If it had not been for Maureen, I would never have set foot on the platform or stayed there.
Sadly Archie’s health deteriorated and he passed away in 2009. Maureen’s eyesight is very poor these days but she has not retired, only taken a new role in working for Spirit. She has swapped the platform of our churches for school visits in her area, to talk to the school children about what it is like to have poor sight. As expected Maureen’s enthusiasm, great charm and sincerity has gone down with both pupils and teachers. Maureen does this through DeafBlind Scotland who do so much to raise awareness of both the needs and potential of deafblind people
To say I was surprised was an understatement when I was asked to take over this work from Maureen. I felt I did not have the ability nor could live up to the high standards that Maureen set for herself in doing such a task. But I need not have worried and Maureen was always at the other end of the phone to give me support.
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The answer was a cowboy outfit, pistol and holster when I would be three and then the following year a well made wooden farmyard which would be very expensive today, Also metal farm animals not plastic like today…The following year it was a watch. I had always wanted a watch and my parents told me I would not get one till I could tell the time. They got a shock when I could tell the time perfectly before I went to school, so Santa brought me a watch for my fifth birthday. A few days into the New Year I started school and after pestering my parents for weeks to let me be allowed to take the watch to school, they gave in. But a few days later a letter arrived from my teacher saying that I was not to take the watch to school. It seems I spent more time checking the time than I did concentrating on my lessons.
What makes this an even more momentous achievement is the fact that they are only 11, and 12-years-old. The two young Scots proved themselves the best in the world at Race Running – a relatively new addition to the international arena in disability sport… Their achievements were in the 100 meters, 200m, 400m and 800m at the event in Dubai. And that is not all – they set world records in three of the four events.
Executions in Japan are carried out in secret, and without warning to the prisoner or his family. So for 43-years Hakamada Iwao has not known from one day to the next when he will be executed Psychiatric examinations have shown that this prisoner has a mental illness as the result of the many years he has spent on death row.