It was a lovely warm sunny afternoon when Humpty Dumpty club (mothers and toddlers) restarted after the summer break. My granddaughter was ready in her buggy when I arrived to collect her and bounced with excitement as we entered the hall. She is getting familiar with the surroundings and the routines, so once she was…
Sometimes things happen to trigger memories. We have recently been watching the Poldark series on Netflix, not having seen the programmes when they were released initially. They serve to remind the watcher of the harshness of life in Cornwall in past times. Hunger and the grinding poverty of the poor together with limited medicine and…
A young man once told his Christian parents that “God can’t lose!”. Expanding on this, he added, “If you pray asking God about something and your prayer is answered then you thank/praise God for answering prayer. If you don’t get what you ask for, then you say it is not God’s will”. It has also…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Psalm 89:1-4.
26th – 28th October at Trinity Methodist Church, Felixstowe
This thought was first published in October 2022 At the Christian conference centre I visited a while ago, in the ladies’ toilets there were ‘inspirational messages’ on the backs of the cubicle doors which certainly made me pause for thought. The first was this one: “It is during the worst storm in your life that…
I have been asked to save beer bottles by my son and his girlfriend. The idea is to use them as wedding decorations. The plan is to hang them around the walls, and if we get enough (?!) to use them as table decorations with wildflower displays. My husband was somewhat bemused, as he couldn’t…
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A 15th October 2023 Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 25 v1-9; Psalm 23; Philippians 4 v1-9; Matthew 22 v1-14. Actions have consequences. Matthew’s telling of the great banquet story contains some verses that are difficult to reconcile with a God of love. “Many are invited, but only a few are…
There are many great joys in working as a Minister and whilst there are times when I feel tired and maybe on occasions fed up, on the whole, I am thankful that God called me into this work. One of the big negatives is that as ministers we move on from time to time to…
I recently watched a programme about “The Great Storm of 1987”. Various people were talking about their memories of the night the storm came. Kew Gardens were very badly affected with the loss of many trees but the one that stuck out for me was a large veteran oak which had simply been lifted out…