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)
Just before the beginning of COVID lock-down, the New Zealand hymnwriter, Shirley Erena Murray died. Had it not been for COVID, her hymns would have featured in various UK events in that year; one such had been planned for East Suffolk. Shirley Murray was born into a Methodist family and married a Presbyterian minister. Her…
I had the delight of meeting Rev Saul Tadzaushe and his wife Tariro at Heathrow recently. It has been a long and frustrating wait but the relief and common warmth between us was evident in the smiles and the greetings as Saul and Tariro came through those doors, after over 24hours “on the road/in the…
A few months ago, Sam and I travelled back to Suffolk to spend time with all the family as we celebrated my niece’s second birthday. She’s often a source of joy for me, and I have many memories to cherish of moments we’ve shared. I noticed on this particular visit that she has begun…
We have recently been “entertained” by the in and outs of politicians, so many U-turns we might well be feeling dizzy. In the time elapsed between writing this and it being published who knows who our prime minister will be, let alone the other members of the cabinet, or even if we still have the…
For several years, The Great North Run was a big event in our family, and we made an annual pilgrimage during September to support family members and friends from Church as they made their way from Newcastle Upon Tyne out to South Shields. Not that I have ever even contemplating taking part, anybody who has…
The Thought for the Day is from Psalm 34 v 11.Come, my children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord We will not get far in our relationship with God unless we understand that He is to be feared. In the Chronicles of Narnia, an allegory by C.S.Lewis, two girls, Susan and Lucy,…
As we walked (car out of action!) across the Morrison’s (other supermarkets are available but not so close to home!) car park, me pulling a trolley bag containing the heavier items and him with a full shopping bag, he suddenly stopped, pulled out a second bag and shared the groceries between the bags. With one…
The original television series, ‘What The Papers Say’, is older than me. It ran from 1956-2008, faltered, ran again on radio and finally petered out in 2016. The newspapers, printed originally but now often ‘consumed’ digitally, have been part of life for a very long time. Facts and Comment inform thinking, drive agendas and entertain.…
“One word of Truth…” is the title of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s acceptance speech when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The title is part of a Russian proverb which says ‘One word of truth outweighs the whole world’. In the news very recently, you will almost certainly have heard or read that…
How can God be there when all I seem to be doing is “Starting Again”? Isaiah 43:- v18-19 “Forget the former things, do not dwell in the past” See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up, do you not perceive it? I am making way in the wilderness and the streams in…