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)
Jonah really welcomed that great weed – or gourd in some translations – which gave him some shade while all around was exposed to blistering sunshine. At least we’re told he was grateful for it. But he just accepted it was there – he hadn’t planted it, he didn’t water it or do anything to…
I’ve been seeing lots of people posting on Facebook recently about roll on 2021. Also, they have been putting ‘can we just write this year off?’ I have also seen people who have been positive saying what they have learnt something new and all the new things they have done. It got me thinking: How…
If there is one thing positive to take from this grueling year of global pandemic, it is the amazing ways that people have responded to the needs of others. Volunteers have come out of the woodwork to feed the hungry, comfort the lonely, clothe the naked in a very practical demonstration of Matthew 25 :…
Recently, clutching my letter telling ‘to whom it may concern’ that I work in the food industry and therefore should, in the words on my passport, be permitted to ‘pass freely without let or hindrance’, I was let out on an excursion to Scotland. The purpose of the trip was not exciting; an insurance property…
I’m sure many of you will have received the annual letter from friends. I’m sure that many will share a similar flavour this year, with the tone being set by a roundup of the woes of the year. Through advent and on towards epiphany, as our hopes have been building, there is a much more…
About halfway through a rehearsal conducted by Sir Michael Costa, with trumpets blaring, drums rolling, and violins singing their rich melody, the piccolo player muttered to himself, “What good am I doing? I might just as well not be playing. Nobody can hear me anyway.” So he kept his instrument to his mouth, but he made no…
During the Autumn of 1996 we decided in the Grimshaw houshold that we would work hard to make this Christmas a Christmas to remember, our girls were still young and I had all but worked right through the previous two Christmases, so we put some real effort into Advent ninety six, I even took time…
If you are familiar with the writings of Beatrix Potter you may recognise this from The Tale of Peter Rabbit: ‘But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden, and squeezed under the gate!First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes;And then, feeling rather…
We got my grandson a toy garage for Christmas last year and I must confess that his dad and I got hours of enjoyment on Christmas day, taking all the components out of the box and linking them all together, it wasn’t a very practical present, because once built up it wouldn’t fit in their…
New born babies are a wonderful miracle! As you gaze at the sleeping innocent infant, the miracle, is, that all the future potential and personality lies waiting to develop in that tiny, peaceful, slumbering body. We are overwhelmed by how fragile, and vulnerable that small human being is, and how dependent on us they are.…