Rev Stephen Gamble
On the Utility of Dreams.
I think I have to accept I will never be Famous enough To be a celebrity contestant On Strictly Come Dancing. I think I have to accept I...
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REV STEPHEN GAMBLE
Music, sermons, notes & videos of my dogs.
Having originally started with posting sermons on this Blog I branched out to include videos of my dogs, articles I have written, and some of my music.
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The things I write are as full of inelegance and error as any other quality I may rather they posses, but they may possibly be useful or even entertaining to you - maybe if only to take issue with what I have said.
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Vicar (part - time) of the Welland Foss Benefice
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Rev Stephen Gamble
A Day at the Beach.
Hector is a Jack Russel Terrier, with long legs, and wiry hair. He was running across the beach at full pelt. To the distant observer it...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Living the Dream. A Short Story by Stephen Gamble.
They entered Gary for ‘Chef Supreme’ as a joke. Not as a mean joke, but as blokey banter. Gary had worked as a chef at the roadside cafe...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Curiosity of a Child and the Patience of Her Mother.
Overheard in a cafe: a small child asking a sequence of about 20 'why' questions - which the mother answered with admirable diligence and...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Observed but not comprehended.
Canal Music Or Silent Notes. I recently came across a paper copy of an Email I sent whilst working at Leicester College back in 2003. It...
Rev Stephen Gamble
A Meeting of the Heron, Or, The Piscine Catching Council.
A Sketch for anyone who has been on a Committee and wondered if there might be a better way. Thankfully quite unlike any Committee I have...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Found by a Stream
This beautiful little fossil is unimaginably old, no doubt a geologist could tell me how old, but imagination and measurement don't...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear Or Portrait of Jesus with Bandaged Ear. Van Gogh's ‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’ seems aptly...
Rev Stephen Gamble
On Blakey Ridge
New Year Resolution. Or Hope Human and Divine. Jacqui and I do not stay up late to see the New Year in, we wake up early and go out in...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Thoughts on Forgiveness.
Those who Trespass against us. Or Terriers Barking The other day I was walking the dogs out through the field, intending to head out the...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Prayer is working with God.
Putting your Shoulders to the Task, or Why Pray? Imagine a farm yard around the end of the eighteen hundreds, with a stone built firm set...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Change and Decay in Eternity.
Thoughts beside an Ancient Church. Church buildings are temporal memorials to eternal truths. They are built to mark out and protect a...
Rev Stephen Gamble
In a Church Yard.
Bony Providence Or Providential Questions. The other day whilst exploring the ruins of a Medieval Church, hidden deep in a wooded valley,...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Finding of a Fossil.
Can God Count? Or The Finding of a Fossil. According to the bible the world is 4000 years old, but thanks to science we know that the...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Easter Reflection (although I was tempted to call it Easter Ramblings)
Once More it is Eventide. "At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one,...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Credence.
I found this trifle while going through some old papers. From dating clues in the content, and from my vague recollection, I think I...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Landscape, History, Jesus and the Bible.
Or Walking with WG Hoskins. “…many parts of the English landscape remain just as our forefathers left a long time ago. It is to these...
Rev Stephen Gamble
The Brewing of Soma
The Brewing of Soma Or Intoxicated Anglicans. I was delighted to discover that the verses of the hymn ‘Dear Lord and Father of...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Conforming to the Mersey Sound.
This is my copy of the ‘The Mersey Sound’, it’s an anthology of poems by the Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian...
Rev Stephen Gamble
Conversation with a Tree.
The picture ( see below) is of a tree in Bishopdale, North Yorkshire. Its root is wrapped around the girth of the huge rock beneath it....
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