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)
We owe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to the Jews. All of it was written by Jews with the exception of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts written by Luke if, as is generally accepted, Luke was a gentile, a non-Jew, born in Syria. The Bible, we believe, is a…
We have just been through a period of celebrating harvest. Despite the driest summer I can remember, and our lawn certainly seems to reflect that, we have had a harvest of figs, peaches, grapes, chilies, beans, potatoes and onions…oh and of course courgettes a plenty! One of the things I’ve noticed in the parched flower…
How often have we said in recent weeks that we are experiencing once in a lifetime events, or being a part of the process of writing history? Just as we have witnessed the whole experience of the Queens platinum jubilee, something never seen in history before and the proclamation of a new king, this week…
Russian peasant farmers enjoy telling the story of the day a commissar came to a farmer and enquired about the year’s potato crop. “Oh it was wonderful,” replied the farmer. “Good, good,” said the official. “Just how big was it?” “Oh, it was so big it reached up to the very foot of God.” The…
I was privileged to attend the welcome service for Rev Abe Konadu-Yiadom recently. It was an inspirational and uplifting meeting. One of the songs the band played for us was ‘These are the days of Elijah’. As we sang it, it struck me how relevant its words were for our situation today. The two prophets…
Early on in the days of lock-down in 2020, some colleagues remarked that I had adapted easily to working from home. My answer, consistently, will have been that I have been home based since 2006 when my office in Framlingham was closed, I moved home and went largely paperless. In the latter point I was…
This Thought for the Day was first published in August 2020 Bible reading – 1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness Have you had those moments when suddenly the penny drops, and you see things more clearly than before?…
This Thought for the Day was first published in July 2020 Some of you may have seen, around a year ago, a most wonderful programme on TV in which Dame Judi Dench expressed her love of trees and revealed that she often plants a tree in memory of a loved one. Trees, protect the soil,…
This morning I had cause to ring my local GP surgery to arrange a home visit for a lady in our village. It was interesting being on the “other side” of the doctor-patient relationship. I rang the patient telephone number and a cheerful recorded voice, (of one of my former colleagues) gave various options for…
At the ripe old age of sixty-three and fifty-nine, with arthritis and diabetes, my wife and I have decided to take up camping, just at the point when folk of our age are promoting themselves onto motorhomes. To quickly kill the image you have in your mind of two of us crawling into a two-man…