As I write this, the Jubilee celebrations are still fresh in my memory but by the time you read these words, those days may seem long gone!! The idea of ‘jubilee’ originated way back in the times of Moses’ wanderings in the desert. Hebrew time was divided into seven year cycles. After the seventh of…

A farmer placed a weather vane inscribed with the words “God is love” on top of his barn. One day a traveller stopped by the barn and watched the weather vane moving with the breeze. Then, with a smirk on his face, he asked, “Do you mean to say that your God is as changeable as…

I am not usually forthcoming in conversations with taxi drivers. When at work I am inclined to be preoccupied with thoughts of the day ahead. Often, in foreign countries, the language barrier precludes discussion. My driver in Helsinki recently was different. It turned out that this man had given up his business because cancer forced…

With a discerning eye it is easy to see the abundant generosity of God in all areas of life             in creation and the material necessities of life                                                       –   the beauty of creation itself                                                       –   the air we breathe                                                       –   the water we drink                                                       –   the food we eat             in…

This passage from The Friendship Book made me think about how blessed I am to have good friends. “The stones in the dry-stone dyke seemed to have been fitted together any old way until it got to the top-most row. The capping stones were all thin, upright and jammed together. At some point, something had…

I’m sure any of you who are reading this might be surprised at the words I have used in this phrase from the Lord’s Prayer. I had to listen several times to the video put out by the Church of England of the Lord’s Prayer to this phrase. The producers have made a deliberate attempt…

Devastating news for some, the final episode of the Australian Soap Opera Neighbours was completed on Friday 10th June 2022 and will be aired in the UK on channel 5 on Monday 1st August 2022, not that I will be watching, but like it or loathe it, the programme has enjoyed a tea time slot…

I was teaching ten reception age children a week before half term. On the last afternoon, they had a scavenger hunt to do outside. So we went out armed with clipboard and sheets with pictures of the ten plants/ animals they needed to spot and pencils. It was a warm afternoon. When we finished they…

In church this morning, after the monthly midweek Communion Service at Woodbridge Methodist Church, I noticed on the back table a number of potted tomato plants. For a donation you could take one home to plant in the garden. Then when I walked down to the town there were loads of tomato plants for sale…

I have a weakness for overusing the exclamation mark in written exchanges, especially in those short replies that are a feature of social media ‘correspondence’. Punctuation is important, and to over use is to devalue the impact of something that should be more than a throw-away symbol. The same is true of the careless deployment…