tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post4808964459643311684..comments2023-12-18T17:32:03.325+00:00Comments on Kindred of the Quiet Way: Call it good.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-42468419688605564662014-01-15T17:56:11.511+00:002014-01-15T17:56:11.511+00:00:0) Hi Beth - waving! xx:0) Hi Beth - waving! xxPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-55054490439082390352014-01-15T17:47:13.172+00:002014-01-15T17:47:13.172+00:00And may you be equally blessed, Pen. I love this ...And may you be equally blessed, Pen. I love this post. As you say, we hear so much of the worry... I always say if you only read the local paper you'd think our city a terrible cesspool of crime and people just not being nice. But, that isn't my experience of it at all. And I am glad. There are so many good folks who cross my path each and every day.BLD in MThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08497511995276601468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-3114689534624429722013-10-09T17:33:29.321+01:002013-10-09T17:33:29.321+01:00Hi Paula - oh, I know that video! xx
Hi Ange! Wav...Hi Paula - oh, I know that video! xx<br /><br />Hi Ange! Waving! xxPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-55822531040055307112013-10-09T16:47:26.670+01:002013-10-09T16:47:26.670+01:00Find your observations most encouraging. Yes we do...Find your observations most encouraging. Yes we do hear mostly negative news in the media. Which contributes, some what, to the British disease of negativism I feel. So refreshing to hear people passing by praised.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08710394507235059292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-78911369788776622062013-10-09T15:05:54.784+01:002013-10-09T15:05:54.784+01:00Very special indeed, Pen. I remember seeing a vide...Very special indeed, Pen. I remember seeing a video of a violinist busking in a Washington train station. Hardly anyone paid any attention, except a child, whose mother hurried him along, and a man of great discernment who recognized that the busker was a virtuoso. The violinist was Joshua Bell, and he was playing a priceless Stradivarius instrument.<br /><br />What does it take to wake people up to the ordinary, if the extraordinary doesn't move them? The pigeons you wrote of sound enchanting--God's simplest work is extraordinary all by itself.Paulanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-74243785110745001512013-10-09T12:00:15.529+01:002013-10-09T12:00:15.529+01:00:0) xx:0) xxPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-46803305760546263412013-10-09T11:45:29.401+01:002013-10-09T11:45:29.401+01:00To simply parrot your phrases seems superfluous so...To simply parrot your phrases seems superfluous somehow, but I must! " Humanity doing its best and life illumined with sunshine." <br /><br />"God bless this street, this town, this beauty, this ordinary kindness."<br /><br />Thank you for penning these astute observations.<br /><br /> Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08740950362293427086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-47070353276103827892013-10-08T17:50:36.130+01:002013-10-08T17:50:36.130+01:00Well, God bless those men!
Thanks for sharing th...Well, God bless those men! <br /><br />Thanks for sharing that lovely story, Bean. xxPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-87308103184202922012013-10-08T17:42:38.867+01:002013-10-08T17:42:38.867+01:00I tire of all the bad news reported and was quite ...I tire of all the bad news reported and was quite touched to read a story on our local news website the other day that showed goodness in the world.<br />The story was about an area farmer who has leukemia, he is sick and had several hundred acres of crops to bring in. So a group of farmers came together with equipment and a donation of their time, a local grain company donated trucks for hauling the harvest, and other business donated food and refreshments for the workers, and in an afternoon, they had that many volunteers, they were able to bring in the harvest for the sick farmer. It still makes me tear up to think of what they did to help their fellow farmer, this is exactly how God wants us to be, to open our hearts and have compassion for our fellow man and be willing to step up to plate and give of ourselves to help.<br /><br />There is plenty of good in the world, it just isn't really reported on because bad news sells.<br /><br />BeanBeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14484707482492844677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-28497627003292812302013-10-08T14:33:11.092+01:002013-10-08T14:33:11.092+01:00Hi Rachel - xx waving! :0)Hi Rachel - xx waving! :0)Pen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-24898895605740939582013-10-08T14:21:08.244+01:002013-10-08T14:21:08.244+01:00I love that about the dentist. He gives people ene...I love that about the dentist. He gives people energy rather than draining theirs. You have such a way of getting to the heart of a person in one sentence. It brought to mind the first page of The Hawk and the Dove. "My mother was not a pretty woman and never tried to make herself so."Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14493848424746127310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-43739775104335319472013-10-08T14:19:03.506+01:002013-10-08T14:19:03.506+01:00:0) xxx Hello friend x:0) xxx Hello friend xPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-55656632782293740482013-10-08T13:57:25.545+01:002013-10-08T13:57:25.545+01:00I think it must please God very much that you noti...I think it must please God very much that you notice these people and things. Many folks go throughout their days and don't pay much attention. You have slowed down, try to live simply and as unencumbered as you can, and you notice the blessings and gifts He sends your way. And then you ask Him to bless them in return. Very, very beautiful.Julie B.http://www.justjulieb.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-909627600256284492013-10-07T23:20:30.819+01:002013-10-07T23:20:30.819+01:00:0) xx:0) xxPen Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13818227904371811230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55532501364780143.post-42138357071177318492013-10-07T22:44:06.895+01:002013-10-07T22:44:06.895+01:00Amen! I was on a long bus journey today - over an ...Amen! I was on a long bus journey today - over an hour each way. Didn't enjoy it as much as I usually do because, for some reason, I felt a bit queasy; sincerely hope I'm not going to develop the horrible car sickness I had as a child! Anyway, God touched me today by allowing me to sit in sunshine in Peterborough cathedral square, just listening to a busker, watching people pass by and, most of all, watching the pigeons in minute detail. I loved the way they strutted with their bright coral coloured feet, and the irridescence of purple and green on their necks. And I loved the way a male puffed himself up, cooing in a purring kind of way, trying to impress a female. She, however wasn't fussed at all, and just walked away. He immediately deflated, both literally and figuratively, and walked the opposite way, trying to look nonchalant about the whole thing. Yes, God's world can be very good!Hawthornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08538563836252189874noreply@blogger.com