Posts by Ruth Loggie

Inspiration!

This thought was first published in October 2022 At the Christian conference centre I visited a while ago, in the ladies’ toilets there were ‘inspirational messages’ on the backs of the cubicle doors which certainly made me pause for thought. The first was this one: “It is during the worst storm in your life that…

Inspiration on the backs of toilet doors

At the Christian conference centre I visited a while ago, in the ladies’ toilets there were ‘inspirational messages’ on the backs of the cubicle doors which certainly made me pause for thought. The first was this one: “It is during the worst storm in your life that you get to see the true colors of…

Pentecost Cookies

Pentecost is one of the most important festivals in the Church’s year. At Christmas and Easter we eat Christmas Pudding and Simnel Cake, but I don’t have any traditional recipes to cook for Whitsun / Pentecost. Does anyone know of any? My family loves cookies, so we thought up these Pentecost cookies – they’re yellow…

The gate of the year

Kath Chalkley recommends the following poem, which she finds helpful.  Though it tends to be read as a poem for New Year, it is appropriate for any time of the year, and it seems particularly relevant in these times when the future seems so uncertain. The Gate of the Year / God Knows by Minnie…