Posts by Christine ONeill

Hot cross bun or cream egg?

Which would be your choice? Would it be politically incorrect to assume that the older generation may typically choose the former whilst the youngest among us would choose the latter? Does it just depend on how you’re feeling at the time? Maybe you weigh up which is heavier – 34 g for the cream egg,…

Young men

Following on from last week’s ‘thought’…. This week I tuned into the Religion Media Centre Briefing on Tuesday lunchtime which discussed a recent Bible Society/YouGov report entitled ‘The Quiet Revival’. This 2024 nationally representative survey based on 13,000 responses has found a 50% increase in church attendance (from 8% to 12%, including 4 times as…

Adolescence

There can’t be many people in the country who haven’t heard of the Netflix series ‘Adolescence’! Many will have watched it already; our children and grandchildren will be watching it in school as part of the discussion about the dangers of modern living. For me, the saddest part was when the father realised what his…

Nobodies

Mark 9:36-37  Then He (Jesus) took a little child and put it among them, “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but the One who sent me.” The picture of a blonde, blue eyed Jesus surrounded by angelic well-behaved children sitting on a green grassy…

Masks

Thinking back five years, when Covid 19 was taking hold in this country, our first defence, since there was no vaccine, was to put on our masks. They were in short supply and the protective barrier they gave us also blocked out vital communication. We couldn’t hear clearly what people were saying to us especially…

After 60 years…

Every so often, for a treat when we were little, my Mum would buy my brother and myself (this was when we were very young and there were only two of us) a cream doughnut as a special treat – the long ones that are split in half lengthways and filled with cream and jam.…

World Day of Prayer

Today is the World Day of Prayer (formerly the Women’s World Day of Prayer). If you are able to attend a local World Day of Prayer service today – please do. However, it is possible to search for it on google and be part of the worship in your own home if you are unable…

Fretting

If the baby was fretful all day – that would be a long tiring day.  However, if they screamed and screamed, generally it didn’t last long, either it would be obvious what was wrong and it could be sorted with a nappy change or a dose of paracetamol or they would tire themselves out and…

Mud

You know how sometimes you try to avoid something only to find that God won’t let it go and basically, He throws it in Your face so often that You have to give in albeit ever so reluctantly?  Well, that’s how it’s been with me recently and mud. Yes, God just keeps throwing it at…

Jesus loves me this I know

Wherever I have been this week, shop windows have been covered in hearts – mostly red but one phone shop particularly had blue ones. Love is in the air. I was reminded of my Dad singing the good old hymn, ’Jesus loves me, this I know’. He wasn’t a church goer in his later years…