The Thought for the Day is taken from Isaiah 53 v 4.Surely, he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in 1982. In the first 15 years 54,000 items were left at the Wall. It still…

The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 31 v1. In You, O lord, I put my trust.  In an article for Campus life magazine, Susan Smart describes her third, and nearly last, solo flight. She had been practicing a manoeuvre at 5,000 feet when she lost control and her Cessna 150 began spinning wildly toward…

The Thought for the Day is from Hebrews 11 v 6. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him An atheist said to a Quaker, “Have you ever seen God? Have you ever felt…

The Thought for the Day is from Romans 5 v 8. From the cradle to the grave, we all need love. How vividly this is illustrated in the song “Jesus Loves Me” by Anna B. Warner (1824-1915). She and her sister Susan were gifted novelists. Anna also published many poems. The familiar lines of “Jesus…

The Thought for the Day is from John 17 v 16.They are not of the world, even as I am not of it The water spider is an amazing little creature. Called the frogman of the spider world, it lives in rivers and streams. How does this fascinating species survive in its watery environment? It…

The Thought for the Day is from Matthew 6 v 34.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own There was a story about a paratrooper in the US Army who had made more than 50 successful jumps without a serious injury. But the…

The Thought for the Day is from John 18 v 37. God has a plan for our lives that is complete in every detail. The Sovereign of the universe cannot allow any of His plans to be executed haphazardly. He leaves nothing to happenstance. The life of Jesus is a prime example. His coming as…

A farmer placed a weather vane inscribed with the words “God is love” on top of his barn. One day a traveller stopped by the barn and watched the weather vane moving with the breeze. Then, with a smirk on his face, he asked, “Do you mean to say that your God is as changeable as…

This passage from The Friendship Book made me think about how blessed I am to have good friends. “The stones in the dry-stone dyke seemed to have been fitted together any old way until it got to the top-most row. The capping stones were all thin, upright and jammed together. At some point, something had…

The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 147 v 4. Astronomers used Australia’s largest optical telescope to map 100,000 galaxies that surround our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The 3-dimensional map covers 5% of the sky and allows us to see 4 billion light-years deep into space. The number of stars included defies our imagination,…