Category: Encouragement
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Overwhelmed….

This was me at this time last year. Overwhelmed. I’ve read a few posts recently, and know some of you are feeling the same, so I hope this re-post helps. Perhaps it’s just for you today lovely reader to let you know you’re not going through it alone. I woke in the early hours with…
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Faithful Feet..

Our sermon today from our Pastor was about the women who went to Jesus’ tomb to anoint his body with oil. He entitled it Faithful Feet. It was an encouraging message that there will inevitably be problems ahead for all of us in our journey of faith…there will be the stones in the way of…
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Say what you see…

That is the catchphrase for a TV programme of the same name, Catchphrase…Say what you see..what is the picture on the screen telling you. The contestant’s wild guesses used to lead to much laughter. Some of the pictures were so obvious that you could get them straight away and would be shouting the answers at…
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Not fitting the mould….

Then said I:“Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.” Jeremiah 1:6 When God called Jeremiah to be a prophet there was a fundamental problem as far as Jeremiah was concerned. He was too young for the role. He didn’t fit the mould. Jeremiah lived in a society where his elders…
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Indignation….

Indignation meaning: anger about a situation which we think is wrong or unfair; a righteous anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy or mean; or the feeling of shock and anger which you have when you think that something is unjust or unfair. Indignation….when did I last feel it. I wonder if I am becoming de-sensitised…
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Time is for our benefit…Today is the day.

Today is the 1st of a new month..summer is passing and we head into another season. You can already feel the chill of Autumn air in the mornings. As I was considering the start of the new month, these thoughts on Time from a few years ago stood out. Have a blessed “Today” my friends.…
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Simple acts of Kindness…

There was a knock on the door. It was about 9.30 at night. We weren’t expecting anyone as we had only just finished moving daughter’s stuff into her new student house. It was an old terraced house in a different and unfamiliar area of the city to her and us. A maze of those old…
