Today’s blog was provoked by reading a recent piece by the Rector of Holy Rood Church Packington. It was about expectations and what happens when they are not met. So two days ago we were thinking about Palm Sunday and the journey Jesus took from Bethpage, up to Jerusalem, on the donkey. The donkey, as […]

We were thanking Jesus yesterday that He humbled Himself, firstly by leaving His glory in heaven in order to come to earth as a man, and then by dying a hideous criminal death on the cross for us. We finished yesterday with a quote from Micah 6:8 about walking humbly with God ourselves, by  thanking […]

It’s Palm Sunday and we are presented with the wonderful spectacle of Jesus riding into Jerusalem in triumph……on a donkey! Not exactly the sight you would expect to see if you had been invited to go and witness the arrival of the King of Kings to His Holy City. It was a fulfillment however, of […]

Walking in the woods near us is always a delight, especially now with spring in progress. I love watching the changes and the metamorphosis that takes place all around. I am so glad to live somewhere where the seasons are distinct and the change is dramatic. Winter to spring is probably the most startling of […]

We were planting some bare root trees recently, and looking at the incredible roots of these young trees made me wonder that if these trees were going to grow to their full height and grandeur, those roots were going to have to do a remarkable job. They are the means of so much nourishment coming […]

People often ask if you are a glass half full or glass half empty sort of person. The implication is that we are all looking at the same glass but some see things positively, by focusing on what is there, and others negatively, noticing what is not there. This is a reasonably good way of […]

I guess the clue is in the first verse of John’s Gospel, where we are told that ‘In the beginning was the Word’. ‘The Word’ is of course Jesus, and God, who is a great communicator, speaks to us through all that Jesus is and was, said and did. He speaks through His written word […]

Today we are looking at one more thing, for which we can be thankful, as we think about the gift, that God gave to mankind, of choice. And that is the gift of being able to change our minds. This is such a big gift because if we were not able to ‘change our minds’ […]

We wrote yesterday about the wonderful gift of choice that the Lord has given mankind, but I can imagine that someone might say, ‘Yes, but then He gave the ten commandments and took choice away. We were given ‘choice’, we don’t now want to be told what to do and what not to do, we […]

I wonder if it has ever crossed your mind what an incredible thing choice is, and what a wonderful thing God did when He gave us the gift of choice. I don’t think if I was God, and I had just created a magnificent universe with this one small, but stunning, habitable planet as a […]