This is a picture book about the moment in a relationship when you realize you don’t love somone completely, because there is one little thing that keeps bothering you. When it bohters you so much it actually makes you physically cringe, you know it’s time to say; ‘Live you but…’
[Thanks, Rita]
I like being a Methodist in England. It means having my cup of coffee after church in a china mug and not out of something made of styrofoam or paper. It means going to a Sunday evening church service that has historically started at 6:30 p.m.—after the farmers finished their milking and before lights had to be out for the black out during World War II.
The truth is I’ve come to appreciate the wonderful combination of tradition and pragmatism that characterizes British Methodists.
As an American Methodist living in England for the past 17 years, I feel I have made some concessions, of course: singing familiar hymns to strange tunes, living without church softball, fried chicken at covered dish suppers, and the benefit of a large, well-resourced national church structure backing up the work of local churches.
Full Article via United Methodist Portal
A man has been arrested after trying to smuggle 44 snakes and lizards onto a plane.
The 24-year-old, who has not been named, had been trying to sneak the reptiles onto a flight from Australia to Bangkok where it is thought they would have sold for up to £90,000 on the black market.