Christ Church Huntingdon Blog

 Click here for audio.  Good morning and welcome to Thought for the Day. They say that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”, but I don’t think any of us think that’s quite right. You can still be struggling from the pain of words many years later long after any physical hurts have healed. Why do I raise this this morning? Well the Bible has a huge amount to say about our words. The book of James – most likely written by Jesus’ half brother, James, talks about our words by focusing in on the part of the body primarily responsible for generating words, the tongue. And it says, you know how a bit is a small piece of metal put into the mouth of a horse, and yet with it, a rider can control the whole direction of travel. Or think of a rudder on a big ship. Relatively a small piece of wood or metal in comparison with the whole ship, and yet it has huge effects. In the same way the tongue is one of the smallest parts of our body, but it can...

Audio here .  Good morning and welcome to Thought for the Day. Beachcomber Ryan Stalker from Weymouth , (click for pictures) had a bit of a surprise the other day when walking along the seafront at Osmington Mills on the Dorset Coast. He saw some rubbish washed up on the beach. Nothing out of the ordinary there. But on further inspection the big plastic item turned out to be an intact wheelie bin. Yes like our beloved HDC wheelie bins that line our street on a Monday and Tuesday (depending on where you live), a whole wheelie bin had washed up on the Dorset shore. But this particular wheelie bin turned out to have come all the way across the Atlantic from Alabama in the United States. Once this hit social media, Americans went wild, and managed to track the item by its bar code to one of three particular missing wheelie bins. And this one went missing in Hurricane Sally in September 2020. So the barnacle encrusted wheelie bin had travelled over 4000 miles in nearly 6 years. Talk abo...