🙏 Sunday Reflection | 24th April 2022

Hello friends and a blessed Sunday to you all! 🙏 I hope this post finds you all well. A bright and mild week has passed by for me; and now it is time to share what I’ve been doing, reading, and watching over that time.

This has been the second half of the school’s fortnight break for Easter, where I have made a conscious effort to chill! I have read, blogged (caught up with a fair few reviews), napped, cooked up a big batch of Bolognese, and had a day trip out to the small, neighbouring city; where I enjoyed a mooch around the shops, visited the library and enjoyed traditional fish and chips, with the above stunning view. 🛍

I also want to thank all those who have sent their prayers and good wishes for my grandfather. A quick update is that he has been scheduled in for a procedure to drain the fluid in his lung and to do a biopsy on 3rd May. ❤

With my time off work for the Easter break, I threw all my effort into my faith reading, which has including: the Celtic Daily Prayer: Book One by the Northumbria Community (2015), my Holy Bible, and Pray For Us by Meg Hunter-Kilmer (2021). The latter of which I finished this week, that I thought was a very interesting read exploring the lesser-known lives of seventy-five extraordinary people whose human struggles and limitations reveal the power of God’s grace. All in all, a very good read. ⭐⭐

I have also continued working my way through the weighty Victorian classic tome, Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens (1855), which was my result for The Classics Club’s 29th Spin event. This is a quirky and delightful tale of little Amy Dorrit and her family in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison, which feels almost like a re-read, as I have such fond memories of the BBC’s 2008 TV series. However I have found it a bit disheartening to read on my Kindle – seeing no progress – so I picked a physical copy while I was the library. 🏛

At the beginning of the week, on the ITV Hub, I spotted ‘The Pilgrim of Hate’ episode of the British mystery television series, Cadfael (1994-98), starring Derek Jacobi and based on The Cadfael Chronicles novels written by Ellis Peters. So I indulged in a bit of a trip down memory lane, as this series was very popular when I was a kid, and this was not one I remembered. 🏰

Not such a comforting watch was Netflix’s newest true-crime limited series, Conversations With A Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022), which I binged watched one evening. I don’t think this really brought any new information forward, but it was chilling to hear about his crimes in his own words and I thought it was good how they added context to the time period his crimes were committed in. God rest those poor boys. 📼

Between those, I enjoyed one more episode of series one of the classic, American sci-fi television drama, Star Trek, too, which was ‘Space Seed’ where the crew of the SS Enterprise discover an ancient sleeper ship and first encounter the war criminal Khan Noonien Singh. Great stuff!

I also squeezed in watching some of my favourite YouTubers’ latest videos, including: Darling Desi,  Nerdrotic, Super Enthused, Triggernometry, and Steven Crowder. 🌍

Finally, last but not least, here are the posts and reviews I was able to share with you, over the past week:

Thursday – The Game by Laurie R. King (2004) ⭐⭐

Friday – The Lost Diary of Venice by Margaux DeRoux (2020) ⭐⭐

Saturday – Books I Got My Paws On in February, March & April 2022

Please do check these out, if you haven’t already! 😊

(I have linked this post into the weekly meme, Sunday Post)

For now, that’s all folks! Where ever you are in the world, I hope you and your loved ones are well: staying healthy and happy. God bless and bye for now! 👋

What have you been doing, reading and watching? Please let me know in the comments below, or leave a link to your own Sunday post. I love to chat with you all!