The One who made

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The One who made the heavens above
Is Lord of you and Lord of me
To him we owe unfeigning love
For he’s the One who set us free

He set us free from Satan’s power
He set us free from sin and guilt
He set us free in that dark hour
When was his blood for sinners spilt.

For sinners gave he up his life
For sinners he to die had come
For sinners fought he in the strife
To call poor sinners to his home

The call is not to one but all
Who will surrender to the same
Not righteous to repentance call
But sinners to his lovely name

The name he has is Lord of Lords
Not just of heaven and all above
The earth and all that it affords
Are his, redeemèd by his love.

The One who made the heavens and earth
Is Lord of you and Lord of me
We praise him now to show his worth
And shall for all eternity.

Words: Stuart Moffatt © 2021 Music: Stuart Moffatt © 2021
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Dowlais – steel works

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When steel matters

The events that are shortly to be related took place in a different age and a different culture, in an altogether foreign location in the broadest sense which was unknown to the people of that time, but is now known to us as a consequence of the work of Einstein in the early part of the twentieth century. It was the time of railroads, steam trains, iron mills, steelworks, coal-mines and dirty work, when undertaker meant more than the entrepreneur and entrepreneur was an unknown word. The prosperity of a municipality could be measured, at least in part by the number of railway stations that it boasted, but better by the quality of the steel produced there and it was from one of these small towns towards the upper end of one of the rolling Welsh valleys that a principle undertaker in the steel industry received a telegram from a bridge and engineering fabricator in North Africa who wished to discuss the procurement of a quantity of steel for the provision of the building of a new bridge across the Niger.

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Too much colour

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It was the reference to a woman of colour that prompted Coco to speak yet again on this matter, Coco was going to remain silent, having spoken before but the reference shows nothing has changed . Coco noticed the article is still fairly close to the top even today; it had not gone away.

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Existential statements

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Coco thought he would keep it simple in this post and just make a big existential statement, but what in reality Coco was thinking was to discover just how many characters had to be written before the ‘see more’ message appears, and to provide a short introduction to his new art work, which has not yet been refused by the Tate and goes by the same name. This is not enough, as you can see, or rather cannot see, yet. The words ‘see more’ have not yet appeared.

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Plans

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Plans do not change, but minds do…

Two friends were out chatting as they do. Martina, who had finished her coffee was Italian, and Stella, still wondering whether she should put sugar in her tea, came from Essex. Martina and Stella had met on a finger painting course in the school of art studies at the university of Fortecolpe which is in the vicinity of Telavivodetto. Strangely the course had been conducted in German and had focussed on Email, which seemed, especially to Stella, quite extraordinary, but nevertheless, with Martina who understood most of it, she completed the course. They maintained their friendship, and now found themselves working in the same area in Finchley.

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Another year

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Another year, so long,
How wrapt are we in bonds
Which flits from bloom to flower
With heavy hum and burr

We wear with hidden pride
Not knowing what the cost
Yet still the world turns on;
The golden dawn awakes,

The winter frost gives way
Preparing earth once more
As April’s pitterpat
And dew drops in the night

So now I think of you
Do not forget to do
The Lord give strength to you,
According to his will		has now passed away; see
unlike the happy bee
along the border neat
pursuing nectar sweet.

the mask upon the face
of leaving our safe place.
it circles in the sky.
the silver moon glides by,

to spring in earnest hue
with whistling songs for you.
brings showers on the lawn
the flowers well adorn,

who once encouraged me:
to be what you would be.
now make his face to shine
on you and your true line.