I visited the opticians yesterday for my yearly eye check. I confess that I was slightly apprehensive as I knew my sight had deteriorated over the last few months – and you know how it is when you sense something is not ‘quite as it should be’ – we always go to the worse scenario…

  I love to sit and watch the birds flying in the open sky. So many different species – so many different flight patterns – yet one thing they have in common is that they soar above the earth – they soar into the heavens – ride the thermals! I know I can learn from…

Each winter morning as I open up my patio doors I get a real sense of opening them up to God. It’s become a special time – a special place – when I deliberately give time and space to be with God. As I opened them today it struck me that as I performed the…

  Over the years I have found it so important to seek a ‘sanctuary’ – a place where I can shut myself off from all that surrounds me and commune with God Psalm 63 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life,…

One of the things I love looking at during these winter months are the wonderful silhouettes of the trees scattered all over our lovely countryside. Nothing is hidden – every branch and twig starkly visible. Stark with barren beauty – stripped bare by winter winds – deceptively dead Branches spreading  – misshapen beauty – nothing…

The days have been long and grey – coupled with sickness – loss of appetite and energy – yet each day has dawned – held promise – held hope. All I could do some days was to reflect – remember – imagine the sun on my face and the wind in my hair – look…

  Often as I sit waiting for the dawn I get the sense of being in a theatre- the curtain about to rise – filling me with anticipation at what the opening scene may look like. Each  day is as if a new scene begins. The scenes vary – the settings differ – and even…

  It’s that time of year when we get to play and hear all our favourite Christmas songs and carols. One of my very favourites is “Mary Did You Know” Mary – did you know that your baby boy will one day walk on water – Mary – did you know that your baby boy…

I guess we might not always realise just who or what has inspired us throughout our life. I began to reflect a little – to remember just a few of those things that had inspired me and how my life had been influenced by them. During my childhood we went on a few holidays to…

Don’t you just love it when you wake up to a day that stretches before you with no plans in place. A day when you can chose just how you will spend it. So many days in our lives are full of appointments – routines – things we must do – places we must go….