Photo: West Devon: A30 Okehampton turn off © Lewis Clarke, via Geograph/Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Original image can be viewed  Here Back in the mid-80s, I was living and working in West Devon while engaged to a girl from the West Midlands (who would later become my wife!). That meant that I…

Yesterday I was tidying the top drawer of my desk, its one which I do not very often touch.  It has those things like sunglasses, stapler, bookmarks, fans, staples in it, and at the back forgotten, it has a few other random items as well.  In a money bag I had carefully kept a few…

I was invited to our Boys Brigade awards evening last night. I suppose I go along maybe once a term to help out with craft activities or to gatecrash their carol service. I always enjoy it – we have a small but lovely group of enthusiastic boys and some excellently dedicated leaders who put together…

Psalm 1:1 ‘O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth’. Reflection Names are descriptive and sometimes evocative. The name of our church fellowship in Framlingham is predictably unexciting, but it does describe the kind of fellowship we are in a way intended to be clear—although whether it is clear remains…

I guess most readers of these thoughts either go on holiday sometimes or used to do so. I wonder if you prefer to plan holidays to new places so that you can explore another part of the world, or whether you like to go to familiar places?  On one of my holidays this year I…

In a recent Bible reading (NIV), Proverbs 3: 5 and 6 state, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” I told my wife that I preferred the translation I had been familiar with for the first thirty…