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Thankyou!

At the Harvest Service in Felixstowe Methodist Church at Trinity last Sunday the items donated have been given to the Little Pantries Project. The Rev Jo Jacobs remarked about how different our services are now in that we are very much including helping to feed the hungry. It made me think about Harvest Services when…

Abba Father

My son and his partner have split up. He hasn’t seen his children for four months. During the last week of the school holidays, it was arranged that he and I meet them in a park. The two older children were there with their friends and they acknowledged him as they played on the climbing…

All is safely gathered in

It is quite likely that a church near you will be celebrating Harvest Thanksgiving sometime in late September or early October. Despite the all-year-round nature of harvest the traditional celebration is fixed following the end of the cereal harvest. Raspberries, potatoes, fish and fuel are all very well but the place of bread in the…

Dancing

Today’s thought for the day is brought to us by Adapted from a contribution by Rev Phyllis Thompson, the Education Director for the New Testament Church of God-Leadership Training Centre at the time of writing. www.christianaidorg.uk Something to read You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me…

Put off

Some months ago, I bought a new pair of slippers because of the condition of those I have worn for a long time. As I prefer wearing socks in the slippers, and the new pair were tight on my feet and needed a shoehorn to assist, I found it much easier to continue with the…

Uncontrolling love

In the last of this series of TFTDs from Greenbelt, I want to share some thoughts from a talk by theologian Thomas Ooord. The title of his talk was “God is- uncontrolling love”, and he started with the statement – God CANNOT control anything. The talk was packed with information explaining this statement, which I…

Lectionary Reflections – Sunday 22nd September 2024

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time                  Year B                    22nd September 2024. Lectionary Readings: Jeremiah 11 v18-20;  Psalm 54;  James 3 v13-4 v3, 7-8a; Mark 9 v30-37. Welcome Jesus said, “When you welcome even a child because of me, you welcome me. And when you welcome me, you welcome the one who sent me.” (Mark 9…

Slow down

I read “Our Daily Bread” fairly often and some time ago (well 8th October 2023 actually) Monica La Rose wrote about #slowfashion’. In the article she explained that the hashtag captures a movement focused on resisting ‘fast fashion’—an industry dominated by cheaply made and quickly disposed of clothes. In fast fashion, clothes are out of…

Dont give up

Psalm 26 v 2 says, “Put me on trial, Lord, and cross examine me. Test my motives and my heart.” I used this verse when I wrote my “Thought for the day” on the 2nd June 2020. At that stage I was writing one every day in order to keep in touch during our Covid…