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Wed 7 May 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Jon Allen

    Night And Day

    • (CD Single).
    • Monologue Records.
    • 001.

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    All Possibilities

    • (CD Single).
    • Twisted Nerve.

  • The Beatles

    Here Comes The Sun

    • 1967-1970.
    • Apple.
    • 7.

  • James Blunt

    Postcards

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Billy Bragg

    A New England

  • Paul Carrack

    I'm Losing You

    • (CD Single).
    • Carrack-UK.
    • 001.

  • Cast

    Flying

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Sheryl Crow

    All I Wanna Do

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Crowded House

    Don't Dream It's Over

    • Crowded House - Recurring Dream.
    • Capitol.

  • Duffy

    Mercy

  • Bob Dylan

    Mr. Tambourine Man

    • The Best Of Bob Dylan.
    • Columbia.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Hold On Tight

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Europe

    The Final Countdown

    • The Very Best Of Power Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Faces

    Ooh La La

    • Driving Rock Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • The Feeling

    Love It When You Call

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott

    D.I.Y.

    • What Have We Become.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 001.

  • Quincy Jones

    Get A Bloomin' Move On (The Self Preservation Society)

    • The Italian Job (Original Soundtrack).
    • MCA Records Ltd.
    • 12.

  • Manfred Mann

    Do Wah Diddy Diddy

    • Ages Of Mann.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Paolo Nutini

    Pencil Full Of Lead

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Sheila & B. Devotion

    Spacer

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • Nancy Sinatra

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.

  • Sam Smith

    Stay With Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 001.

  • Molly Smitten-Downes

    Children Of The Universe

    • (CD Single).
    • EastWest.

  • Soul II Soul

    Keep on Movin' (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Sparks

    Beat The Clock

    • The Best Of.
    • Repertoire.
    • 2.

  • T. Rex

    Solid Gold Easy Action

    • Marc Bolan & T Rex Essential Collectn.
    • Telstar.

  • The Trammps

    Hold Back The Night

    • (Single).
    • Buddah Records.
    • 14.

  • U2

    Ordinary Love

  • ´Ü´Çë

    Sunshine On A Rainy Day

    • Awesome 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Reverend Sharon Grenham-Toze, Anglican Priest and Prison Chaplain:

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I managed to entice my kids away from their various screens on Bank Holiday Monday, and treated them to a new kite each - my youngest was happy with a lovely traditional shaped kite that looked like a flying fish. My nearly 10 year old was a lot more adventurous and plumped for a delta wing stunt kite.

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The flying fish was up in seconds, and just sat there, fluttering merrily, but, it has to be said, not doing anything very interesting. The delta wing was another matter altogether….We launched it, it spun madly, then crashed alarmingly close to a small child. We launched it again, a bit more spinning, before another spectacular nosedive. After 20 minutes of this we all got a bit frustrated. Then suddenly my son got it - he somehow instinctively aligned with the wind, moved with it, stopped trying to control and direct it, and instead let it take him, sometimes making just small adjustments, other times great big leaps. But that kite danced. It swooped and soared, spun and climbed, and fell and climbed again.

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And in between the joy on his face and the exhilarating sight in the sky I saw the thing I need to remember time and time again. When we try to control events in life, when we’re inflexible, or rigid, holding on too tight to people or things, or even time itself, it’s not long before we start spinning wildly and eventually nosedive. Instead we need to be strong and flexible like the poles giving the kite its shape. And we have to keep searching for the wind, for whatever it is that’s moving us through our life - I’d call that the Spirit of God, others might call it something different. But that movement is often the wind of change: if we can line up with that, and not resist, it might well become for us the breath of life and then we’ll really start to fly.

Broadcast

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