Tracing Relatives, Looking at the British Census.
Recently, My oldest son, Tom (18)  and I have enjoyed looking at the census in England and Wales tracing relatives. This information does not explain why someone died, or the quality of his life.  Dates, place of birth and occupation can only tell you so much. We came across [...]

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Do we understand that there should be a dramatic difference between someone who is a Christian and has the life of Jesus (the Holy Spirit) in him compared to a non believer? If there were two similar looking transparent containers but one had a bright light contained in it, we would notice the difference. I [...]

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I used to watch old men on television marching proudly, placing wreaths of poppies at the cenotaph in Whitehall, London. Many of them had fought in World War I but many more had fought in World War II as well as in later wars as these veterans were younger. Sadly, many of these brave [...]

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Where I live in Southern California we try to grow grass in almost desert like conditions. Apart from an occasional attempt to sow wild flowers, my only repeated experience of sowing seeds was scattering grass seed over the soil.
We covered the seed with wire netting, we added compost to the soil to make it [...]

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