Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

Audio can be heard  here .    My thought for the day today is entitled “New year’s revolutions ”. Yes you heard me right, not New Year’s resolutions, but “new year’s revolutions ”. You will be familiar with new year’s resolutions. They are all well and good… ·         Lose some weight ·         stop smoking ·         go to the gym The trouble with new year’s resolutions is that they are so hard to keep. Maybe that’s why I found a list of these slightly easier to accomplish new years resolutions on the internet… ·         Go to a Weight watchers group and eat a bag of crisps during the break ·         Give yourself a high five no matter what number you read when you step on the scales. Or these slightly more wacky New year’s resolutions… ·         S...

  (Photo John Lewis & Partners here ) Thankyou Peter. My thought for the day today is entitled “Christmas adverts”. I don’t know about you, but one of the fun things to look out for in your Christmas TV viewing is the adverts. There have been some great ones over the years. - Mrs Claus- M&S 2016. - Monty the Penguin, John Lewis 2018 - Kevin the Carrot from Aldi (most years!) My particular favourite is Excitable Edgar from John Lewis 2019 ( click here for the video) . You might remember that Edgar was a little dragon, and unfortunately he kept ruining Christmas. You see the trouble with Dragons is that they breath fire, and fire and Christmas trees, or ice skaters or snowmen don’t really mix. In fact Edgar is a bit of a liability, and he ends up hiding himself away. Except a little red haired girl called Ava takes pity on him and goes after him. To the tune of “I can’t fight this feeling any longer” Edgar arrives at the banquet, and everyone ducks for cover. Is he going to b...

  Click here for the recording of this thought (3mins) Thankyou Peter. My thought for the day today is entitled “light in the darkness”. Now, I’m sure other Thought for the Day speakers may touch on this familiar theme as well, but Christmas is a time for Christmas lights. You may have been at the turning on of the town lights a few weeks ago, you may have put lights on your tree, and if you drive around the town at night, you’ll see some epic light installations outside people’s homes. We wake up our kids and drive them around the town once a year to see which one wins the prize for the most impressive Christmas lights. There’s the elegant dangly shimmering lights, (we’ve just invested in some of those after our last lot got into a tangled broken mess). There’s the figurines of deer or a lamppost. Best of all was one house we saw in Stukeley Meadows that had actually had a video image projected up against a window with a loop to make it look like Father Christmas arriving into...