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)
For my daily Bible reading, I prefer a short Bible passage as I find it easier to remember. Occasionally, I am confronted with a much longer passage as occurred recently when I was directed to 39 verses from Daniel chapter 4. Having read through the Bible on at least three occasions, I am always surprised…
Last week I was out in my garden tidying up – weeding and lawn-mowing amongst other things. I cam across this tiny oak tree sapling that was growing in the middle of the lawn. When I pulled it up, it still had the acorn shell attached and a long tap root, that had been attempting…
I recently pulled into a pay and display car park, it was a busy day, the car park was fairly full and there was a long queue for the pay and display machine. My daughter rang me while I was standing in the queue and I started the process of obtaining my ticket, conscious of…
A few days ago when I was visiting a close friend who is quite ill, I met her daughter’s dog for the first time. She is quite a character and certainly makes her presence felt. When she was a pup she broke one of her front legs and it didn’t heal properly so after a while…
Today we remember the Battle of Britain. It was a turning point in WW2. If the RAF hadn’t held off the Luftwaffe, Hitler would likely have moved on with Operation Sea lion land invasion of the British Isles. Who’s to say what would have happened then? Britons would have been devastated and the move to…
Image Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Samuel H. Kress Collection;191.9.12) Reading : Philippians 2:5-11 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the…
This thought is brought to us by Julie P The Lord is my Dive Master, I shall not drown He makes me remember my safety routines He leads me though turbulent water, He plans a safe route for me Even though I lack skills and knowledge, I will fear no sharks, for you are with…
And God said, “Let us make man in our image after our likeness.” Genesis 1 v 26 (KJV) When you go to the supermarket, the person who gives you the receipt is, according to God’s word, made in the image and likeness of God. When you are in the bank or Post Office or paying…
Anna Porter brought us a TFTD a couple of weeks ago about sunflowers and how they bring sunshine into dark places, and reflected on the image from Ukraine, where fields of sunflowers have has to give way to graves for those who have died in the conflict. It got me to thinking about the sunflowers…
While on holiday, we drove through the Dales town of Hawes, the home of the Wensleydale cheese factory, a favourite of the Aardman animation characters Wallace and Gromit. Hawes was packed with people as we drove through the marketplace and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I spotted these life-sized knitted characters, I had to…