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Rosalind Smith contemplates things that are eternal

A quiet joy

Rosalind Smith contemplates things that are eternal

by Rosalind Smith 1st June 2018

During Meeting for Worship recently it was brought home to me by some ministry that we should not – need not – dwell so much on the problems of the world. They will come and go, always. We should not be preoccupied with fathoming the nature of God, Jesus, or any other ‘religious’ subject. We should dwell on the things that are eternal not, as it says Colossians 3:2, ‘on things on the earth’.

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