the honest touch?

what if
the words we said
we meant –
would they be
what’s needed
to close the
widening gap

what if
the truth we held
was not ours
alone
but shared –
would it be
sufficient
to unite
us

what if
the ordinary
was our
everyday
enough –
would we
be
altogether more
content

or is that
simply
impossible
now

as we
continue
to individually pretend
by writing
our own
better stories

which have
no happy
ending


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To read ‘Me, myself and AI – interacting with the ghost in the machine’, click here

To read ‘Keeping it real’, click here

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Author: Peteaird

Nothing particularly interesting to say about myself other than after 27 years working as a GP, I was delighted, at the start of December 2023, to start work as the South West Regional Representative of the Slavic Gospel Association (SGA). You can read about what they do at sga.org.uk. I am also an avid Somerset County Cricket Club supporter and a poor example of a Christian who likes to put finger to keyboard from time to time and who is foolish enough to think that someone out there might be interested enough to read what I've written. Some of these blogs have grown over time and some portions of earlier blogs reappear in slightly different forms in later blogs. I apologise for the repetition. If you are involved in a church in the southwest of England and would like to hear more of SGA’s work, do get in touch. I’d love to come and talk a little, or even a lot, about what they get up to!.

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