Dear All A couple of centuries ago on a country highway if a masked man appeared in front of your coach holding a musket and shouted threateningly: ”stand and deliver” you’d have been scared out...
Dear All There are many things that people dread and one of them is standing up and having to speak in front of others. It can be so much harder, especially if friends and family...
Dear All With the benefit of so many TV channels these days, we can watch just about anything we wish and at any time. With widescreen, surround sound, and high definition ‘boxes’ it makes our...
Dear All Today the church celebrates ‘Pentecost’ which has its origins in the Jewish harvest festival called the Shavuot, ‘Feast of Weeks’. The word ‘Pentecost’ is a Greek word derived from the term ‘fiftieth’ ie,...
Dear All Sit back and relax, put your feet up and empty your mind completely, this incidentally, reminds me of a workmate of years ago in the shipyards. At lunchtime, ‘dinner time ‘ in those...
Dear All There have been many social ‘experiments’ tried and tested over the years and each with varying degrees of success. Many books have been written and read and political systems and principles developed on...
Dear All Isn’t it the case that whenever we lose something we try mentally to re-trace our steps to jog our memory? It happens too sometimes that we walk into a room and forget why...
Dear All Have you ever found yourself trying to convince someone about what you are saying and then find the need to offer some kind of ‘guarantee’ that you’re being absolutely truthful? I’m sure on...
Dear All Throughout the bible, we find many references that speak of contrition and humility and their opposite attitudes, pride and arrogance. The ‘contrast’ is stark and how people reveal their respective attitudes influences how...
Dear All Seldom in the news do the best examples of good human behaviour ever grab the headlines, that is until recently of course. Now almost every day we hear of the decency, thoughtfulness and...