Peter Blog a few random thoughts

The Transfiguration Lent 2nd week I was once at Bills Restaurant in Chichester when I witnessed this couple coming into the place hand in hand. They were clearly very happy to be together. They then sat down and then proceeded to text there friends where they were. They never actually looked up. When the food came they took pictures of it. They were not present to each other.  On another occasion I was sitting on the train when I heard a person talking to their friend. " You just don't listen to me" they said. It seems to me that we have forgotten to listen attentively to another person.  We are surrounded by noise. Every munite of every day there seems to be noise. As soon as we get up in the morning with the noise of the radio to the car alarms constant going outside to the hustle and bustle of people everywhere there is noise both natural but most of the time unnatural. Being surrounded by noise it is very hard then to actually find the time and the space to...

This past week I have been I Florence on Holiday but while I was there I was thinking about what to say to you this weekend about beginning lent. I want to share with you an exerpeice that reminded me of what we are on these next 40 days. One of the great exerpeice’s of Florence is to walk up the steps to the dome at the top of the Cathedral. The beautiful exterior of the Cathedral really does take you breath away. But some of the best views are on the top of the dome some 400 steps away. The walk up reminded me of the stages we go through in Lent.  The first thing that we do when we give something up for lent is to make an effort. You say but with a bit of doubt of course I can do it. We also have the habit of telling everyone about it. I am reminded of my small friend Josh who told me and the world that he was giving up chocolate for lent and he was going to the nicer to his Mum. At the end of school it was his Grandmother who picked him up. She had brought him a large bar o...

You may not already know but my Dear Father died of Cancer last year and so  Ithought I should do something about it so this March I am embarking on the 10 thousand steps a day for march here below is my Donation page please pass it on. lets walk over Cancer. IF you want to join me thne let me know Fr Peter https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/peter-walks-all-over-cancer-22

What is a Friend? they asked each other one day. Silence fell as they thought this through. A Friend one said after time had lapsed I s to be comfortable in the others space. The other looked and smiled and glanced sideways To recognise and be recognised across a crowned space Allows a person to be themselves, listens to the same stories time and time again.  Who can laugh, cry, share, argue, forgives time and time again.  Who is a friend then.  They looked at each other smiled and sat in perfect silence  enjoying the being together before they went their separate ways.