• Look the Part…Play your Part

    These are the words that greeted me yesterday on a very large boxed package that arrived with my name on it. It was very exciting to receive such a large parcel through the post and then to unwrap it and read those words..I had been expecting the delivery in the post although the day and…

  • Expectation – What is my expectation

    On Thursdays, I publish something from my archives which has inspired or challenged me in the past. Today’s reminder was about Expectation and some questions I asked myself 2 years ago. I have been thinking about this today and it is a challenge.   What am I hoping/expecting to receive from God when I pray to…

  • #Testimony Tuesday -What if……?

    Today’s testimony is about a recent experience I had at our last Sunday Service. It was towards the end of the service after the message. We were having a time of praise and worship before taking communion. I started to feel a heat in my left shoulder and top of my arm. I was sat…

  • Sorrow and Solace

    Sorrow and Solace

    Like many people my Grandad David had experienced tragedy in his life. He served in World War 1 and lost his first wife when she was aged only 25. His own mother had died when he was just 22. He was only married for 5 years and was left widowed with a four year old…

  • True Hope..

    I have realised that hope is not as easy to define as I thought and can be easily misunderstood. My own hope in the past was not always properly formed and I think when I reflect back was either a false hope, misguided optimism or wishful thinking on my part. So then when things did…

  • Blogging Anniversary..Thank You

    Yesterday, I received a reminder of my 4 year blogging anniversary…it came as a bit of a surprise as I hadn’t realised. So a big thank you to everyone who has read, liked, commented, followed me and shared my posts over these last four years. Thank you 😊 I have connected with some amazing bloggers…

  • Paid in your own coin..

    Paid in your own coin..

    Grandad David often wrote down snippets in his notebook from Aesop’s Fables. This is one of the morals from the story of the Fox and the Stork which must have made an impact on him. “It is very imprudent as well as inhuman and uncivil to affront anybody; and whoever takes the liberty to exercise…