Johnx2's blog

Best wishes to all members for 2010!

2010-01-02T10:35:23Z

So a new year and a new decade! Doesn't seem 10 years since Heather and I celebrated the New Millennium - in our case - at the lit Beacon on the Frampton Meridian Line - drinking champagne!

So much has happened since then - both individually and to family and friends! Some good - some bad!

On the world stage, who can forget 9.11 2001 and the other terrorist acts around the world - Bali, Madrid and London to name but a few - or the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami!

As we enter the challenges of this new decade - I continue to pray for the Peace and Healing of peoples of every nation under God. That through His love - violence and hatred will melt away. That through knowledge , wisdom and understanding - we will find positive solutions to all that threatens our lives - including Cancer!

Blessings!

John

Holy Land Trip

2009-11-02T20:49:03Z

Have just been to Israel - Galilee, Dead Sea and Jerusalem areas. It was very hot! 46C at Dead Sea which is 300 metres below normal sea level!

It was a blessed trip! Lit a candle and prayed in a church in Jerusalem.

If anyone is interested - online photos at:

http://photos.orange.co.uk/my/album?album_id=223760247

Regards

John

Tomdog's Birthday Bash!

2009-07-13T20:24:29Z

A great party! Thanks and well done Steffy & Tom! Mayte - excellent cake!!!! My Online Album Link: http://photos.orange.co.uk/1x9C7007/album/140177677?cid=tashare001 John

Visit to The Somme

2009-05-25T16:25:27Z

A message from Tommy! Thanks for visiting me on The Somme, Where those in charge just got it wrong! All for payment of a shilling, Don’t get me wrong though… I was willing! ‘Steady lads’ – the Captain said, A moment later – we lay dead! Over the top.. what did we gain? A debt of honour with no shame. Silence since that awful day, Here amid the shells and clay. Dreams were shattered, As bones got scattered! Known as ‘missing’.. I’m not lost. I’m still here.. but what a cost! Peace remains mongst craters bold, Birds are singing.. o’er buttercups gold. Pause sometimes and think of me... When you go home across the sea!

MANCHESTER PARTY!

2008-12-13T11:43:03Z

The Manchester Gathering! Online Photo Album: http://photos.orange.co.uk/album/8244587

A Prayer for All Using The Forum

2008-06-19T09:52:59Z

For sufferers of cancer and all looking on, For those in supporting, with all said and done. To all folk enduring and others who care, Give peace where there’s anger, hurt or despair. Bring a smile today Lord and in your great love, Send healing and wholeness from heaven above!

Potpourri Poem

2008-06-16T10:30:03Z

Vessel brown and brittle be, created by a man like me. Moulded from the fired clay, hallowed empty for a day. Floral patterned holes to see, filled with petals – potpourii. Vessel white most lovingly, created by our God – yes me! Formed from water and from clay, Life He gives me each new day. Holy Spirit breathe on me, Fill this fired vessel my plea! (written on a Quiet Day at Brinkhill Church – opposite the pottery)

My Trip With The Normandy Veteran's from Boston - August 2007.

2008-06-07T21:00:46Z

Omaha In front the beaches far below, behind the headstones row on row. A Jewish star, a Christian cross, all are marked, a life, a loss. Their sacrifice the price to pay, that we might live another day. The veterans laid their wreath with pride, honouring all young men who died. Americans, French, Italians too, shook hands, gave thanks, to those who knew. Faithful men who did return And shared with us that we might learn. Normandy Dead Man’s Corner - St. Mère Église, A parachutist there was seized. Point Du Hoc, Batterie a Longues, silenced by our ships beyond. At Bayeaux, Juno, bullets flew; at Aromanches the cannons too. To Pegasus the Horsa’s glide, river deep and swamp so wide. Surprise attack it was the key but not the safest place to be! At Ranville yet another wreath, recalling all who lay beneath. So much to share at Bernières, Hillman, Merville too; the German bunkers could have sunk us, hidden well from view! Cintheaux farm a place of charm, but so much more to show; Aladdin’s cave spoke of the brave, which earth held long ago. Falaise Gap, strategic map - accounts of battle – living hell. Visualised… but not the smell! As we remember those who died, upon another shore. We hope and pray that all may say, let’s have an end to war. August 2007. Trip With The Normandy Veteran's from Boston.

The Sea

2008-06-07T20:54:37Z

The Sea Oh what is it about the sea? How I wish it were certain to me. Is it the waves with their bubbling white tops? Or is it the fact that it never ends - never stops. Perhaps it’s the power it looks to possess, Or so it’s actions seem to express. One moment so calm like beauty just born, The next with the wind gives fear for a storm. With its groans and its grinds that puzzle great minds, It’s supplies of fish to frequent our dish, Such marvels so bold I suppose it will hold, Still secret from me the truth of the sea. Aboard the ‘Northern Gift' Trawler - Icelandic Waters 1971