Hemmed in
What is God doing in you at the moment? Perhaps you know and sense that He is at work, but are unsure exactly what He is up to. Maybe you…
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Devotional Rescue
I hope you don’t mind but I’m going to be a little bold and prophesy over you. I know we may not have met, but that is not important right…
St Anselm
This morning I woke up and did something I have never done before. I wrote to the Secretary of State. Here is why. St Anselm was a well-known medieval pastor,…
Strange protection
She smiled up at me with her adoring little eyes, gurgling happily as I cuddled her close. Then the needle went in and her expression changed immediately. In the long…
Not where you left Him
One of my Dad’s most reliably endearing character traits is his ability to lose something within about 8 seconds of arriving at our house. If I had a tenner for…
Praying the wrong prayer
Some weeks ago a BBC Radio station’s coverage was accidentally interrupted for 3 minutes by another BBC channel’s output. Someone flipped the wrong switch. 32 people complained about the mistake….
Still dew
On 6th March 2010, Simon Barnes wrote an amazingly moving article in The Times about his second son Eddie, born with two holes in his heart and Down’s syndrome. “What…
Bless those who persecute you…
I honestly used to believe that no-one could really dislike me. I mean well… even if I get things wrong. But in the last few months I’ve come to realise…
Knitted together
I am clearly not a true ‘creative’ because I am always on time for meetings, but I do like to make stuff. I draw the line at knitting though. I’ve…
Knowing who you are
(Picture opposite shows The Lord’s Prayer in Braille) I meet alot of people who genuinely don’t know themselves very well. Because they do not understand what they struggle with, or…