Walking through a well-known discount store today, I was drawn to their “Fall display”. Autumnal leaves and pumpkins, orange and brown gnomes and squirrels – harvest time already!!! I was reminded that with the harvest comes sorting and sifting and sieving – getting rid of the husks and chaff to save the grain of value.…

Twenty years ago, we went for our first family holiday to the Lake District. We had always gone to the seaside before, but a change was needed, and we were anxious that the idea might backfire on us. In hindsight it was a huge success; this year we are all going to Cumbria together, accompanied…

As some of you will know I like a variety of teas and, usually drink it black so I can taste the tea.  I have green tea with lemon for breakfast, Lady Grey for lunch and green tea in the afternoon.  Perhaps you are thinking “Ugh” or what has that got to do with a…

In God’s word the Bible we are given many promises. All of God’s promises must be fulfilled because God does not and cannot lie. When Jesus ascended to heaven his disciples must have felt abandoned. But Jesus gave them a promise that He would send the Holy Spirit and He kept that promise because days later they…

Another incident that happened on my recent cycling adventure was meeting an obstruction in the road. We were cycling along roads in the Yorkshire Dales and a message came through that there was a lorry obstructing the road in front of us. We had to turn off onto a narrow country lane and were met…