1 John 3:18

"Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."

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Very grateful for the church's initiative!

Good news at last!

After recent trying times, it was wonderful to be encouraged by amazing progress made by the translation team last week. Our consultant was with us to check Psalms 98-150 and whatever else we could manage. Well, we did those Psalms, then Song of Songs, Lamentations and the six minor prophets which we hadn't yet checked. As a result, we only have 1 and 2 Chronicles left to check!

Simon took a photo of us at work:

Hilary's Theory of Gaps in the Wardrobe

Life has been difficult recently with Marc being unwell for so long, but let's talk about something completely different. I'd like to say that you can't escape from reading about climate change at the moment, but you probably can if you choose your news source carefully. Anyway, I've been reading about it, and one thing which has been in the news has been the effect of the fashion industry on the environment. The throwaway clothes culture is unsurprisingly causing damage both in the production of the clothes in the first place and the disposal of them afterwards.

On to my theory. You've probably heard the expression "a gap in my wardrobe" suggesting that you don't have the appropriate clothes for a particular situation. I suspect that this is more of a problem for women than for men. The fashion industry would always like us to believe that the solution to the gap in our wardrobe is to buy a piece of clothing to fill that gap.

Here comes my theory. For the sake of argument and without trying to be realistic, imagine that you have three pieces of clothing in your wardrobe. Hold up three fingers. How many gaps can you see in your wardrobe? That's right, two. Now, imagine you manage to "fill" one of the gaps in your wardrobe. You now have four pieces of clothing. Hold up four fingers and count the gaps. Oh no! You thought you had filled a gap in your wardrobe but now you have actually ended up with more gaps!

This simple illustration is designed to show that there will always be "gaps" in our wardrobe, and that we perhaps need to think more carefully about what we buy, why we are buying it and how much wear we will actually get out of it.

And don't forget to make cleaning cloths out of your old clothes!