{"id":2594,"date":"2022-03-24T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T19:44:10","slug":"blog-march-23rd-moments-of-sunshine-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=2594","title":{"rendered":"Blog March 23rd \u201cMoments of Sunshine \u2013 Part One\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world is facing very troubled times of which today\u2019s featured song \u201cIn Times of Trouble\u201d is a reflection. However, in spite of so much darkness in the world, especially the tragic and horrific images we see of Ukraine, there are still \u201cmoments of sunshine\u201d or to quote last week\u2019s song \u201clittle bits of heaven keep breaking through.\u201d So, for the next few weeks I want to celebrate some things that have made me smile and realise, despite everything, that there is still so much good in this world.
\nWhile Head of PE at Crofton School I tried to encourage an attitude of \u201cplay hard but play fair\u201d and for a long time the PE noticeboard displayed a photograph (as featured) of a wonderful piece of sportsmanship by Andrew \u201cFreddie\u201d Flintoff, now of Top Gear fame, but then an English cricketer. It was back in 2005 when, in the Ashes, \u201cFreddie\u201d famously consoled Brett Lee after he and the Australian team had been narrowly defeated.
\nAnd fast forward to 2022 and the Wales v Italy Six Nations Rugby Union match in which Italy won by one point -21- 22. Welsh winger Josh Adams won the \u201cplayer of the match\u201d award, but he made the wonderful gesture of offering his award to the Italian fullback Ange Capuozzo, whose stunning break in the final minutes of the game led to Italy\u2019s first Six Nations win after 36 straight defeats- they also had not beaten Wales since 2007.
\nAdams won man of the match for scoring a try which had put Wales 21- 15 ahead and earlier in the game he also made a superb tackle to deny Italy a certain try.
\nYou can see how much x appreciated Adam\u2019s gesture and even though he felt he could not accept the award it was still what the sports media are calling a \u201cclassy act of sportsmanship.\u201d <\/p>\n

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In Times of Trouble featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album “I Look UpTo The Heavens.” recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson The world is facing very troubled times of which today\u2019s featured song \u201cIn Times of Trouble\u201d is a reflection. However, in spite of so much darkness in the world, especially the tragic and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}