Dear All Today’s passage is probably one of the most familiar in the entire bible. It is sung along with another well-known hymn, ‘Abide With Me’, so often at funerals that it has become known...
Dear All There was a lot of snooping going on in the Old Testament and according to Numbers yesterday, and Joshua today, some of the Israelites are at it again. Yesterday we read in the...
Dear All A few short years ago when I was a boy I, along with just about every other boy and girl of my age, went to Sunday School. It was fun. Fun was in...
Dear All At the start of the lockdown, it seemed to me that our new currency would soon be Smartprice or four-ply luxury toilet tissue. Things have changed now and toilet tissue has been replaced...
Dear All It’s early in the morning, 6.14 am to be precise, and I am now writing. I had a quick look at some scientific papers from research as to how music affects the brain...
Dear All During this week we are being asked to be kind to one another and be aware of the issues surrounding mental health. Mental health, until recently, compared with treatments for other illnesses is...
Dear All I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Robert Burns was influenced in his satirical poem, ‘Holy Willie’s Prayer’, by today’s passage, the similarities are stark. I have, during these last 58 days of...
Dear All Have you ever come across a ‘jobsworth’? They sometimes come in the form of a character with a big bunch of keys dangling from their belt and a kind of ‘know it all’...
Dear All Let me get this off my chest before I continue, I’m fed up by those folk who start answering a question by the annoying use of ‘So……’ and those who feel it necessary...
Dear All I’ve got my Mr Grumpy coffee mug beside me on the kitchen table and I refill it about a dozen times while ‘penning’ my daily thoughts. I am enjoying writing to you each...