This thought was first published in December 2021 I was writing Christmas cards today. Having lived in many locations I know many people and it seems quite a chore. I remember a conversation with an elderly lady from our Church here. The lady died some while back but I remember so well something she once…

Boys Brigade and Brownies used to meet on the same evening at one of the Churches we attended. In typical style, the boys had been trying to scare the girls. Our smallest daughter came home full of indignation and informed us that she had been told that our Church had a Ghost ! and asked…

I always liked to see what the Sunday School pupils had put on to the notice board. Looking at one on a Church I was visiting I gathered that the children had been asked to draw their favourite Bible Character. All of those that you would suspect were there, Peter, Mary, Paul and so on…

We were having lunch one Sunday after Church. Teenage daughters had apparently had a rough time that morning in the Youth Fellowship. There was a lad there who had been completely disruptive, butting in, making comments, questioning etc. In the end, one of the teenagers, in sheer exasperation said ” I don’t know why he…

It was well into the year and I arrived at a preaching appointment early one day. A small girl came into the Church wheeling a dolls pushchair with a dolly in it. I understand these things having been a little girl myself ! and all my dollies had names, so I asked her what was…