Theme “Tradition”

THE DAYS THAT ARE GONE

By Rev. Clifford Reed

“Thank you for the days, those endless days,

those sacred days you gave me.”

– ‘Days’, The Kinks (1968)

Thank you for the days that are gone:

for the days of hope,

for the days of resolution to save the world,

when, by striving, we’d make it true.

Thank you for the beauty.

Thank you for the singing.

Thank you for the dancing and

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Now and then

By Rev. Melda Grantham

Now and then somebody calls at the old chapel.

Searching, – for solitude, tranquillity, history or more likely – ancestors.

As they make their way up the ancient flagstone path they wonder whether they’re walking in the footsteps of their long dead relatives.

Is this the way that their great grandparents walked to their wedding? Were they nervous?

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