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Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see Hebrews 11:1 (niv) What do you put your hope in?   I was faced with this question this morning as I walked to collect my Granddaughter to take her to school. If anyone had asked me this question IContinue reading “Hope eternal”

No-one likes appearing as a fool do they?  As a child, I remember most of the pictures of fools were court jesters with their funny pointy hats and bells jingling whenever they bounced around.  I don’t know what comes to mind when you think of a person being ‘a fool’? In our teenage years somethingContinue reading “The foolishness of mankind”

Genesis 1:26 The God said ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground’. niv Suffering is a strangeContinue reading “What were you expecting?”

I sit here looking out on my garden with joy as I see the glorious line of daffodils across my garden wall interspersed with pansies.  I remember planting these last year with the hope of seeing a flush of colour along a boring wall and now I have the benefit of that moment of labour.Continue reading “Growing in Christ”

How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing.” Matthew 23:37 (niv). Here we are on Mothering Sunday giving thanks to Mum’s. Grandma’s, Aunts, Godmothers, all woman who play a significant role in the lives of others. As with my birthday, todayContinue reading “A Mother’s love”

Psalm 118: 24 …. we will rejoice and be glad in it’. It was my birthday this week.  Normally leading up to my birthday I get a little nervous in anticipation of how others are going to celebrate the day.  How will the family surprise me?  Did they take the gift hints that were sentContinue reading “This is the day the Lord has made……”

‘ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, Phil 2:5-6 (esv) I don’t know about you but, I was overwhelmed by the bible’s description of love.  I realise that in no way do I reflectContinue reading “A servant’s heart”

1 Cor 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. We’ve all had a lot to face up to particularly throughout 2020.  No matter who we are, we’ve had to change in ways that were impossible for us to contemplate, ways that would end up becoming aContinue reading “Love shows the way”

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’, Wouldn’t it be great if there was one easy guide on how to love.  It would be easy wouldn’t it? Just follow the rules and everything will go swimmingly.  IngrainedContinue reading “The how to guide of love”

‘Love your neighbour as yourself’ Mark 12:31 niv The tragedy of living in a broken self-focused world is that the collision course of our lives brings hardships and terrors to the lives of others. For those of us in the world who have been hurt by others, the hurt goes deep into the recesses ofContinue reading “Too tough to handle”