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)
Recently I read that when a giraffe is born, its front hooves and head emerge first. Suddenly, the baby is catapulted ten feet from its mother’s body, landing on its back. It rolls to an upright position with its legs tucked under its body. Rather startled, it shakes any birthing fluid from its body and…
In the course of my working life, I can only remember a couple of occasions when honesty has let me down. In every other situation, both personally and professionally, the old adage, ‘honesty is the best policy’, has applied. That should not be surprising but it is, bearing in mind how many times I hear…
During Lent I have been following the devotions each week from the Leprosy Mission and I felt that they have all been very poignant. The following is only one of them and I have put the following one into my own words. When one of the Leprosy Mission workers visited the Leprosy Mission’s Anandaban Hospital…
I derive considerable pleasure from listening to YouTube Christian music from several American pianists and a church choir in Texas. I was interested in a spiritual song I heard recently that included the phrase, “I’m ready when you call me Lord, but give me just a little more time”. That, of course, is not the…
This thought was first published in 2021 “The best thing of all is God is with us.” These were the last words of John Wesley as he lay on his death bed. The reality of God’s presence was what he held onto in his final moments. We are fortunate to have the legacy of those…
I survived for the first sixty years of my life without giving much thought to how many steps I was doing each day. I can remember a colleague way back in the seventies saying that we should be provided with pedometers at work to record how many steps we took in any given day, and…
Anniversaries can be joyful but they can also be very sad. The 26th of April is going to be a sad one for our family as our beloved shih tzu, Misty, crossed the Rainbow Bridge two years ago. She was over 15 years old and in her last year she suffered many health problems but…
Just after Easter, we walked the ‘Henley loop’ with my sister and brother in law. It was a bright breezy day but the ground was damp and muddy. I was bringing up the rear. Each time we came to a muddy patch, I would stop and assess how best to cross it. Could I skirt…
The world of the emoji is peripheral to the one I inhabit. It is easy to imply extreme reactions to otherwise mundane, everyday events. We become overreactors and if that happens, how do we respond when something truly unusual occurs? I know I can be on the blunt side; I prefer not to use opaque…
Now that many of our Easter Celebrations are over, I am back to my Eddie Askew book. This morning I have been reading “The Bird Seed Takeaway”. It really does relate to my garden. He talks about filling the bird feeder with a mix of seeds and peanuts and watching through the Kitchen window, which…