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)
I recently met up with supporters of Operation Restoration, to join in celebrating 30 years of ministry to the street children in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. One of the “by-products” of the pandemic is the increased connectivity with friends 1000s of miles away. We had an overview of the work of Operation Restoration, and time for…
I’ve always found it amusing the way young children love wellies, the sun can be cracking the flags and even so, the choice of footwear for a lot of children will be their wellington boots, I can remember both my children going through the phase and my grandson, who used to refer to them as…
As part of my role within the URC Youth, I am the nominated “Green Apostle” for the young people. Among other things, I sit on a national committee of “Green Apostles” who meet twice a year to discuss different actions that can be taken on smaller and larger scales to reduce our impact, both as…
Mark 6 v 46. After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray When a whitewater raft guide shouts, “Eddy out!” he doesn’t mean, “Throw someone called Edward out of the boat.” It’s a command for the people on one side to hold their paddles against the current while the others stroke. This…
Truck drivers have been in the news lately. Last week, one part of our businesses announced the winner of the best of the nominations in an internal scheme to award someone who has done something special. Often these events are spectacular for their lack of the spectacular, but this one was different. The driver concerned…
On looking through my Leprosy Mission Christmas Catalogue I came across a tea towel headed “A Good Friend Tea Towel”. There are many quotes of what friendship means all over the tea towel. Some are: Friends are the flowers in the garden of life. Best friends always stay to dry up. A true friend makes…
1 Peter 5 v 7.Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.Isaac Page tells the story of a poor man in Ireland who was plodding along toward home, carrying a huge sack of potatoes. A horse and wagon came along and the driver stopped to give him a ride. The man accepted and…
Greta Thunberg certainly caught the world’s attention with that one word! She was attending the Pre-COP 26 meeting in Milan, where various world leaders were meeting to try and agree on actions before the main COP-26 meeting in Glasgow which starts this week, and accused the world’s politicians of “30 years of blah! blah! blah!”…
When I was a lad, shopping looked very different to how it does today, we travelled by bus into town and visited a range of different shops to buy different products, each shop with shop assistants behind counters and tills to store the cash that you’d just paid with. I remember going as a family…
George Herbert is the author of the hymn ‘Teach me, my God and King’ (no.668 in Singing the Faith) Teach me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see;And what I do in anything To do it as for Thee ! A man that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye;Or,…