How do you pray? An article in a recent Saturday Times by Roderick Strange (Rector, St Mary’s University) reminded us that prayer is individual; there is no correct way to pray. Monsignor Strange highlighted the words of three sages of wisdom. First, Dom John Chapman, a biblical scholar of the 1930s, gave the advice to…

Summer is here! Well, the days are long, the sun is shining most of the time, and my tomatoes are beginning to fruit. I’m very pleased with my veg and I enter it in our village show. I’ve even won prizes. Feeling successful is an uplifting experience. Have a quick thought. When did you last…

When we think about slavery we tend to think of the relatively recent past and the dilemmas thrown up by wealth derived from slavery, or we think about modern slavery. All this is about abuse and the curtailment of the lifestyle of one person or group by another person or group. Yes, that is simplistic…

Having just finished a knitting contract that had consumed most evenings for the best part of the last four months, I rewarded myself with a new jigsaw.  Forty two different teapots segmented into 1000 pieces, with little written captions – my favourite sort of challenge. The pieces were uniquely cut into odd and original shapes.…

The Thought for the Day is from Matthew 6 v 34.Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own There was a story about a paratrooper in the US Army who had made more than 50 successful jumps without a serious injury. But the…