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Faithful in the smaller tasks

Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Jim Stewart www.christianaid.org.uk Something to read Josiah did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. 2 Kings 22:2 from full reading…

AMEN

Looking back many years, I recall, as an early teenager, attending mid-week prayer meetings more out of a sense of duty than Christian enthusiasm. That may help to explain why I found it interesting to “time the prayers” and the record was 19 minutes. This was unusually long, but it was in the days when…

Sacrifice

This month would have been my father’s 101st birthday and earlier in the summer I was reminded of his role during WW2. He joined up in 1942, before he was called up officially – he was afraid he would be assigned to the Royal Navy and he couldn’t swim. He was in the Duke of…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 5th October 2025

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time              Year C                      5th October 2025 Lectionary Readings: Habakkuk 1 v1-4, 2 v1-4; Psalm 37 v1-9; 2 Timothy 1 v1-14; Luke 17 v5-10. Faith, Trust and Mission. “You have been trusted with a wonderful treasure. Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit, who lives within you.” (2…

Lost!

Sometimes you just have to admit it.  You’re lost!   I will never know why my Sat Nav kept insisting that that Capel St Mary was right in the centre of Ipswich but insist it did.  “You have reached your destination”.  “Have I?  Is that right?  That’s Museum Street!” By this time, I was getting extremely…

Hidden talents?

I recently mentioned that I had been sorting out a lot of my belongings. I passed on some very fine crochet cotton to a friend who was lacemaking. These balls of cotton belonged to my mother who died 33 years ago. I had kept them in my sewing box with the intention of making something…

Bowled over!

Regular readers may remember that last summer I wrote a ‘thought’ about Freddie Flintoff’s television programme ‘Field of Dreams’ in which he gets together an unlikely band of boys and coaches them into a cohesive and successful cricket team. Well, his current series sees an extension of this project with him now supervising three diverse…

Sweet

Read: Proverbs 26:12-17 If you find honey, eat just enough – too much of it, and you will vomit. (Verse 16) A local plumber who we use when things get wet where they should not get wet or dry when they should be wet also keeps bees as a hobby. Recently we acquired a replacement…