{"id":468,"date":"2015-02-05T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T12:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=468"},"modified":"2015-02-05T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:21:58","slug":"blog-february-2015-a-celebration-and-a-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Blog February 2015 – A Celebration and a Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEdna Horsley and her family<\/p>\n

First the celebration– <\/em>it\u2019s one year since the Risen! blog started! It really has been great fun reminiscing about Crofton School and sharing how the music behind Mustard Seed Songs came about.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s song \u201c I Miss the Magic\u201d was an old pop song which I said had been \u201cconverted into \u201cOh Lord Hear My Voice\u201d in fact that was wrong – it was converted to \u201cHow Can I Love You More?\u201d which is this week\u2019s song and yes it does also \u00a0feature in Risen! – The Musical. <\/em>It is sung by \u00a0the disciple Peter after Jesus has asked him three times \u201cSimon son of John do you really love me?<\/p>\n

Today, February 5th<\/sup> in Washington DC, Dr Graham Giles will be having breakfast with Mr and Mrs Barack Obama and 250 other people who have been invited from 130 different countries to make \u201cgood things happen in the world.\u201d The last time Graham went to the President\u2019s Prayer Breakfast he rubbed shoulders with such dignitaries as the King of Jordan, The Prince of Denmark, The Prime Minister of Kosovo , the President of Macedonia and Hilary Clinton.<\/p>\n

On Friday afternoon at my house Graham heard, for the first time, the promo CD of Risen!- The Musical,<\/em> \u00a0copies of which he is taking to distribute at the Prayer Breakfast.\u00a0 Graham was very moved with what he heard – \u201ca stunning achievement\u201d was amongst the many superlatives he used to describe the music and I thank him most sincerely for his continued support and encouragement.<\/p>\n

Now the Tribute<\/p>\n

Last Thursday I attended a very beautiful Thanksgiving Service for a very old and dear friend – Edna Horsley who after a long battle with cancer finally went to heaven. Edna was a long standing and much loved member of Holy Rood Church- she had also been one of the Secretaries at Crofton School until she retired.\u00a0 Edna actually typed my MA dissertation listening to tapes from the Dictaphone I had used- that gives an indication of her level of her patience! Edna was always a great organiser and worked closely with the Clergy in arranging the Holy Rood Church weekends away to places like Ashburnham Place. I will also always be indebted to her for organising a coach load of people from Holy Rood to a performance of our previous musical \u201cHis Story\u201d at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth – she even took the scene outside the Theatre in Guildhall Walk, which was pretty wild in those days, in her stride and with a smile on her face.<\/p>\n

I will really miss Edna and my heartfelt sympathy goes to Stan, Carolyn, Paul, Dan, Gemma and Mike.<\/p>\n

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Edna Horsley and her family “How Can I Love You More?” featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard- from the album “Love is the Way” recorded by John Hodgkinson and Bob Ross First the celebration– it\u2019s one year since the Risen! blog started! It really has been great fun reminiscing about Crofton School and sharing how the music […]<\/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-468","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\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}