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Samson is back

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  Who is Samson you may be asking? An 1831 locomotive of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a software platform for computational nanoscience, a Lockheed Martin military transport plane, a character from the Bible with legendary strength and long hair! Well Samson is all those things but he is also a cat. Samson is a cat that belongs to friends of ours from church in Huntingdon. And sadly Samson went missing for 48 hours. What would you do if you lost your cat? Search around the garden ask around the neighbours. Our friends did all the normal things but they did something else that is a bit more unusual. They asked their church to pray. Here’s the whatsapp message that went around Christ Church Huntingdon “Would love prayers that our missing cat would turn up- he hasn’t come home the past couple of nights… so worried that he might be trapped in someone’s shed/garage”. Then there are 5 emojis of praying hands as people got to work praying. What happened next? 2 ...

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

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  I wonder if you’ve heard of the song “Tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree” sung by Tony Orlando and Dawn. We mentioned it at our new church service on the Oxmoor on Sunday, the Carpenters Arms. Mark is kindly going to play the song at the end of this thought for the day. It’s quite an old song- 1973, so it wouldn’t quite count for in with the sixties out with the sixties, and it was released before some of us were born, but it’s quite a nice song, and it has been mentioned before on a Thought for the Day by Kath Pawlett. It tells the story of a guy who has just done his time, perhaps in prison or a military establishment, but he has fallen out with his missus. Not knowing whether she will have him back or not, he writes to her and says, that he’s coming back home on the bus on such and such a day, and if she will have him home to restart the relationship then she should tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree near their house. If he doesn’t see a yellow...