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)
In the world, I believe that there are two kinds of people, early birds and night owls and I fall very much into the first category. I love early mornings and can get through a huge amount of work before the rest of the world wakes up and since the dawn of the digital age,…
Over the holiday period I watched both of the Paddington Bear films. I find them very entertaining and the special effects make Paddington very real, but if you look below the surface there are so many moral issues involved in these films. Paddington was a refugee from Peru who was looking for a better life…
Poems can express our feelings and help us reorganise them. I am in awe of poets who manage to allow me to think differently about a situation with a few well-chosen lines. This poem by Mark Strand takes us into those feelings we often have in winter, rearranges them and can help us utter a…
Just after sunrise on the shortest day I went out for a walk, wondering what to ‘think’ and to share on 6th January. This day is known as Epiphany and on this coming Sunday we reflect on The Baptism of The Lord. And then it was there – a setting moon in a clear blue…
A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with…
Psalm 119 v 33.Teach me, LORD, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end A Scottish shepherd stood waving his arms on the lush green hillside. His flock had broken away and was straying across the road while motorists honked their horns further adding to the sheep’s bewilderment. From the top…
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Hannah was a troubled young woman. She shared her husband, as was the custom, with another wife, who had produced many sons and daughters. Sadly, Hannah was unable to…
I have never been a great lover of parties. I know, that makes me sound like a bit of a misery and I put it down to the fact that I have never really enjoyed surprises, I like to know what to expect and even now have a dread of the unexpected. One of the…
So that’s it then! We’ve lit all the candles, sung the carols, and put the baby in the manger. The innkeeper has turned Mary and Joseph out into the stable, the angels have sung: Glory to God in the highest Peace on earth, goodwill to all men. The shepherds have visited and the wise men…
One of Dame Vera Lynn’s wartime songs was ‘when the lights go on again all over the world’. The lyrics go on to talk about the permanence of love and marriage and ships sailing again after the dark years of the semi-stultified existence of war, or so I read it. Sunset can be a very…