When I was a little boy I got into trouble for writing on my bedroom wall. The writing was a record of the time I awoke each morning; I learned to tell the time at a younger age than all my peers thus buying myself the chance to read during ‘telling the time’ lessons at…
I’m experimenting with sourdough. Getting the “starter” going was interesting and rather messy and took a lot of time and a lot of patience. At every stage there is a long wait, and I mean hours. Because the yeast has to grow naturally you can’t rush it. I’ve graduated to actually making sourdough bread now…
Today I nearly cried. A television programme took my breath away. It is rare for any programme to make be even consider becoming tearful; even ‘War Horse’ did not make me cry, (well not much). Probably if I had not walked past the DIY shop, I would not have come close to tears. Today I…
First Sunday in Advent. Year B 29th November 2020 Lectionary Readings Isaiah 64 v1-9 Rip the heavens apart! 1 Corinthians 1 v3-9 Signs of God at work. Mark 13 v24-27 When the Son of Man appears. Signs and blessings. (The third?) Isaiah was writing after the return of the exiles from Babylon,…
If you start to make a list of all the things for which you want to thank God, then you will need a very large sheet of paper – a roll of backing paper used in decorating would do – for starters, anyway ! It’s almost certain that one of the items on your list…
The circuit carol service is being held on Zoom this year
Rev Diane Smith is running an online Advent Course for anyone in the Ipswich Circuit
On November 29, 2020 we begin the second year of the cycle, Year B of the Revised Common Lectionary. But what exactly is the Lectionary?
This picture appeared on Facebook earlier this week and appeared to attract quite a bit of attention, my first reaction was one of amazement that in the knarled roots of an old tree, new life is sprouting forth and at face value, the picture is quite amazing and a wonder to behold. Next week we…
“I fled Him down the nights and down the days..” The quote is from “The Hound of Heaven” by Francis Thompson. Thinking of how God is always there for us and with us, if we’ll only open ourselves to His presence, my mind wandered to Thompson’s poem and how if fitted in with Jonah’s experience.…