I love the poem “Footprints in the Sand” and I get tearful every time I read it.(As I’m writing this “You’ll never walk alone ” has played on the TV). My husband and I have just had a couple of days holiday in Bury St Edmunds and I had a lovely time wandering around the…
Mark 9:36-37 Then He (Jesus) took a little child and put it among them, “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but the One who sent me.” The picture of a blonde, blue eyed Jesus surrounded by angelic well-behaved children sitting on a green grassy…
Last week I wrote about how times have altered over the last hundred years. This week I hope you will indulge me with another retirement related thought. I am genuinely looking forward to the future whatever it may hold and however long it may (or may not) last. I am not afraid of it but…
This thought was first published in March 2022 As part of a management course today we were given an exercise to do, initially alone and then to discuss as a small group, we were told to imagine we had £2.5 Million which we could only spend on ourselves. We later had an equal sum we…
This week, our 10 minute service reflects on Revelation 5:12.
A good friend, a Christian, had employed two men to undertake some repairs to her bungalow, and as she took the younger one a drink, something went wrong and he used those two words as an expletive. As she handed him the drink she just said, “I’d rather you didn’t talk about my friend like that”. The…
Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C 30th March 2025 Lectionary Readings: Joshua 5 v9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5 v16-21; Luke 15 v1-3, 11b-32. The Joy of Forgiveness In Psalm 32, King David speaks of the blessing he has received from God in the wake of confessing his sins to him. ‘Our…
We have been blessed with the gift of a life size eagle at Elmsett Methodist Church. The girls in our Girls Friendship Club (GFC) have been working over the last few weeks on this beautiful and majestic bird. It is now soaring above our heads as we worship on a Sunday morning. This reminded me…
Last Sunday I was preaching from Luke 13 where Jesus speaks of his compassionate love for the people of Jerusalem: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were…
I think I mentioned recently that I had acquired a new friend. It’s my shopping trolley. As I have got older, I’m finding that I can’t carry as much as I used to be able to and I think that the two litre containers of milk are especially heavy. This is where my trolley comes…