Three weeks in Blighty
We just spent three weeks in the UK. The first week was spent at our mission, UFM's, Summer Conference. We've always enjoyed these times - the conference centres are always clean and comfortable and you get catered for - our children used to think they were hotels. In addition you get some preaching and teaching - this time from an old acquaintance from Northern Ireland - and reports from people who serve in amazing places. We always feel like weaklings alongside the folk who paddle their way up the Amazon, or who work in remote parts of Central Asia. We had to do a seminar on preparing for retirement, which was well-received. Ella took us quietly and smoothly up to Caen for the ferry and we stayed overnight near the terminal before taking the early morning crossing. To get to the conference centre we had to use the M25, and it lived up to its promise. The second week was spent with my sisters and a nephew in a holiday cottage in Tenby. This was a straightforward trip down t...
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Whenever people talk about the EU making war impossible I recall that the United State had a civil war after it was a nation and that war was as nasty as any war fought with other nations. Sooner or later a union formed by politicians will erupt into war and that war will be nastier than any before the union.
I am not hopeful of human attempts to end wars, though we have to do all we can, of course!
Our only hope is in the grace of God to our rebellious and defiant continent