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)
I am now the proud owner of three different coloured passports, OK two of them have expired. Thank goodness my last one expired, my photo makes me look like a corpse! When you cannot wear glasses and you are staring straight ahead terrified you might blink as the camera flashes. There was a great deal…
When our girls were growing up, we bought a season ticket each year for Eureka! The children’s museum in Halifax. It is a museum designed to capture the imagination of children from birth to eleven and grown-ups are only permitted if accompanying children. Our season ticket was money well spent as our girls walked through…
For those who have a delicate nature be warned this thought contains details of bodily functions you may find disturbing. So read on at your discretion …. Did you know that in 4 weeks’ time, on the 19th November it is National Toilet Day? There is a day for everything these days. I thought you…
Psalm 136 v 1.Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever. You don’t have to live long in this world before it becomes painfully clear that nothing lasts forever. The car you were so proud of when you bought it is spending too much time in the garage getting fixed. Those clothes…
I recently had a birthday card, not a significant one, although as I get older they are all significant! One of my cards from a very good friend said: Wishing you HappyBack to Normal,Near Normal,Normal as there is,Close to NormalBirthday. It made me wonder where I am. I came to the conclusion that it often…
We had a bit of a moment recently; I sent a photograph of a clean pair of shoes to my daughter who panicked and replied, ‘what have you done. My work shoes have gone silver?’. It was nothing of the sort of course, just a trick of the light and not a problem. When I…
Psalm 1 v 3.That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in seasonand whose leaf does not wither-whatever they do prospers. People who don’t want to wait 4 decades for a globe Norway maple to grow in their front garden can buy a 30 foot specimen from a nursery for £30,000. A 50…
If you get your milk delivered by the milkman you may have seen this image of the 5 Rs. REFUSE to buy unnecessary items. We are a society of consumers. Even in lockdown we were still shopping, with delivery drivers on the roads for long hours at a time, and not always essentials and grocery…
In the good old days, when I was living at home with my parents, we would have a clear out every so often and fill the back of the car with a load of our junk and drive down to the tip at Rodley and lob it all in a skip. The most stressful part…
Philippians 2 v 9.Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name What’s in a name? Plenty, according to Justin Kaplan and Anne Bernays, authors of the book The Language of Names. In the section of their book where they discuss literary names, Kaplan and Bernays point…