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9 May 2017

(Dis)Organised Religion

Written prayers, spoken without understanding but ascribed magical powers.
Faith in form and religious functions rather than in the person Jesus.
Assimilation of practices and beliefs outside of Scripture, baptised in religious jargon.
Organised religion, so often becomes a god in place of the true God it purportedly represents.
I have no quarrel with those who reject organised religion and I fear the future faith of those who subscribe to this man made religion.

Waiting For The Uncertain

When you have aches and pains and you are aware that cancer can recur, not knowing if the pain is a symptom or just a 'normal' ache can be really stressful and a heavy load to sustain. So glad yesterday's blood test and xray results were okay. So I will live a little longer . . . yet the possibility of cancer showing up continues to haunt me from the backgrounds. Go away cancer, go far far away.




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