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 have just finished reading a compelling and eye-opening book by Joanna Cannon, author of ‘The trouble with Goats and Sheep’ and ‘Three things about Elsie’ –( also fantastic reads), entitled ‘Breaking and Mending’, which is a junior doctor’s stories of compassion and burnout. I hope she won’t mind me borrowing her title for a…
I was driving home from Hadleigh and came across a combine harvester coming towards me. It was obvious I would not be able to pass, and there was a van behind me. I therefore had to edge forward. Unfortunately I ended up with a wheel in a ditch, unable to get out. The combine passed,…
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…
At the ripe old age of 63 I find myself at times struggling with life’s circumstances that seem to be beyond my understanding. More and more my quiet question to God revolves around the little word ‘why?’- not least of all in this unsettling time of pandemic- and the expression found in the story of…
The first of a few thoughts around one word – CONSIDER….. Consider the lilies of the field…. Jesus is keen for us to recognise how precious we are to God and how we can trust and rely on him. Matthew 6:28 and Luke 12:27 tell how Jesus’ followers are to “consider the lilies of the…
My mother once told me many years ago that it was during the 1st World War that some words of a hymn really did help her. She was walking up the hill from Manningtree Station after saying goodbye to my Dad who was in the army and had been on a weekend leave. My mum…
They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, I am currently missing my regular fix of visits to the Yorkshire Dales. When my brother and I were little we spent many a happy hour at Bolton Abbey with our parents. In those days my dad drove a motorbike and sidecar and the journey from…
It would be difficult to escape the claims being made across every sector of society that they are suffering more economic hardship than everyone else. Perhaps I have just grown more cynical, but the quality of news reporting has nose-dived. The local channels especially are so obviously clutching at straws for stories, given the additional…
In the Felixstowe Mission Area, during the months of August and September we are meeting in the garden at Kirton Chapel for Worship at 4pm each Sunday. So far, we have engaged with a “Birds of the Bible worship station experience” and a Garden Holy Communion (following social distancing guidelines). Plans are in place for…
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…