Every day we post a Thought for the day written by someone within the circuit. Some are very light hearted and some are very deep theologically with all bases between covered.
We hope these will encourage, uplift and make you reflect but most of all we hope you enjoy reading these small daily snippets and take some inspiration on your daily journey
“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go” (Genesis 28:15)
This coming Sunday will see many churches enjoying their carol services. Everywhere, notwithstanding COVID worries, people will be looking forward to what Christmas means to them. For Christians there is the bonus of the celebration of the wondrous event of God incarnate, the arrival of the Christ-child. I wonder how the cousins Mary and Elizabeth…
We’re on our way to Bethlehem but who will show us the way? MARY AND JOSEPH Journeys can be long or short, easy or difficult, slow or quick. You might travel alone or in a group. You might stop along the way. You might get lost. You might need help to find your way. In…
On looking through a drawer for some more hand cream I came across a small tube called “The Ritual of Dao” and was intrigued by the title. So I googled it! I found that Dao is an ancient Chinese philosophy which is supposed to help you find inner peace and tranquility. I’m not sure if…
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Some months back I was on a cycling holiday with my friend Rev Rach Ward in Eastbourne. On the first day of our holiday, we cycled up to Beachy…
The Christmas television advertisement campaigns have become huge business in recent years as our biggest retailers fight to get the best advertisment for a particular year. One of my favourites was from one of our major supermarkets a few years ago, who simulated the famous scene from WW1 in the trenches, when for a few…
Since September, those who attend ‘Well in the Week’ on Thursday mornings at Seaton Road Methodist Church, Felixstowe, have been considering ‘Essentials for Wellness’. We probably all know the essentials for life – food, water, shelter, love, and we could, in these modern times, add a healthy diet, exercise, and mindfulness to the list. But…
We’re on our way to Bethlehem but who will show us the way? THE PROPHETS Journeys can be long or short, easy or difficult, slow or quick. You might travel alone or in a group. You might stop along the way. You might get lost. You might need help to find your way. In ADVENT…
I have not forgotten the phrase that I first heard at school, ‘don’t do what I do – do what I tell you’. The implication of that is that it is possible to steer people one way while actually travelling another way. Those who try to operate like that underestimate the effect of lives lived…
“A couple of weekends ago I went to London to help my son, Richard, sort out his flat. At the beginning of January he is relocating to Singapore for 3 years. On Saturday morning we started to make different piles of his belongings. Items for the skip, items for recycling, items for his local charity shop,…
Recently at our Thursday evening Fellowship Meeting our topic for discussion was “The Suitcase.” Prior to this I, along with a huge number of people had watched on television the terrible events in Afghanistan where thousands of people had tried to get out of the country to escape the Taliban. Most of the people in…