The view from my bedroom
I'm at home for Easter right now, it is lovely. My home town is a place called Petworth, a town of about 3000 people in West Sussex and I actually love the place. I honestly think it is one of the beautiful places I know. Before Uni, I had lived here my whole life, in the same house and before I went off to Cardiff I guess I had taken for granted how nice the place is. That is not to say Cardiff isn't beautiful, I love it there as well. Living somewhere your whole life does mean you begin to take it for granted, but moving around you begin to realise that there is beauty all around us, so thanks to God for giving us such a beautiful planet! But, back to Petworth, there is something about the place I just love, more then anywhere else I have ever been to. Those who know me, know I am very proud about the place and wont shut up about it, why I don't know!
Perhaps testament to Petworth's beauty is the fact it is now in the South Downs National Park, which official came in to being last week. It isn't just the beauty of the town that makes me love it though, it is everything about. It has it's issues, but where doesn't?
Anyway, enough of that, you are probably getting bored. If you get a chance to visit, do!
There was a nice bit on The One Show earlier about Street Pastors. Street Pastors are basically Christians who go into city centres on Friday and Saturday nights and just help people who are on nights out, whether by giving them flip flops, first aid or calming arguments. They did a few vox pops with some people on a night out and one really caught my ear. A guy said he was sceptical of the Street Pastors as he thought they probably have a hidden agenda. This made me a little bit sad actually, why does he think that Christians always do stuff with an agenda. The answer is actually quite simple, for too long Christians have been doing stuff with too much of an agenda. Sometimes all you need is to just show love to people, which, to their credit Street Pastors are doing. People know they are Christian, but they don't force it to people, all they do is help them, love them. So good on them, and I think we could all do with loving a bit more! Love Love Love Love Love - Remember it.
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Reuben: are you related in any way to the late Kathleen Emily Sneller who lived at Petworth and (if I have the right person) was a midwife? She delivered me in Bristol yonks ago. I think she belonged to the Exclusive Brethren. Sarah
ReplyDeleteHello! I didn't recognise the name myself, but assumed they were related if they lived in Petworth. I've asked my Dad and she was one of my Granddad's sisters. She was a member of the Exclusive Brethren apparently and moved to Petworth in the 1970's. Are you trying to trace more information?
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