Forgiveness – a very practical tool in life

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How we blow it as humans - all of us not just some! We constantly think of ourselves and selfishness is like our middle (if not our first) name in the actions we perform with the motives we have. Forgiveness can be a nebulous subject as it is…

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

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Trust is a word we use a lot really, but its meaning is challenging. In order to trust someone, we need to know them and then put our entire confidence in them. This is what God wants of us humans as we were made to interact with God, find out…

Choices

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We have so many to make in a given day even within an hour! How we need our sleep and that supernatural energy that comes from God to keep us alert and mindful of what is important and priority. My first choice in the day is how I spend the…
Birthday

Birthdays

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Most of us seem to love birthdays even though some of us try to disclose our growing age. Some people, of course, try to ignore their special day or put it down as unimportant. For me, being showered with cards, presents, phone calls and kind…
Heat

Heat

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How we British people love the sunshine and the heat of the sun! Just to have a few days of real summer is a treat for us especially in the light of many past summers when we haven't seen much sun and in past summers it has even been cold. The…

Election – news we don’t get!

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There has been so much talk going on with the election in the UK coming up imminently. Yet there is an election that is on the go all the time not for people to represent a nation but for individuals to represent God on the Earth. God has…

The Light that Shines in the Darkness

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When it gets dark, we need a light. When we feel that life is dark, we need a light. When we are unsure as to what decision to make, we need light on the matter. Lighthouses beam out a bright light to warn of danger.Lights in various forms are…

Why teach the Bible to children

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The Bible is a very reliable book, teaching not only morals and good ways of living but also showing the way to live this sort of life. As humans we fail and are weak at doing what is right and we readily make many mistakes through life. The…

Waiting!

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This is definitely not something that I am good at but it is a necessary part of life in this busy age we live in! Everything, it seems, needs to be instant and somehow waiting is relegated to the bottom of the pile of what is necessary in life. In…

3 ways that our children can know

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I didn't really hear and know that God wanted me to follow him until I was 17 years of age. I went to church occasionally (Christmas and Easter mainly) and taught regularly in a Sunday School of an Anglican church in Gloucester (UK) but I hadn't…