Dear Friends,
Your ‘best after date’ is worth waiting for!
If I were a packet of fresh food in a supermarket a shopper might look at my ‘use by date’ and put me back on the shelf. My best before date could also discourage people who are looking for the BEST unless they are looking for someone at a reduced price! We can’t afford new and fresh so we’ll make do with less than best!
Dear Friends,
Better people make a better world!
We all know that the health of the world is not good and that we need to do something to make it better. But what?
The world has been exploited, polluted, poisoned and abused so we need to do something to make it better: But how?
Dear Friends,
Healing from a distance
with your prayers…
mark 7: 24-30 and Luke 7: 1-10
There are some amazing stories of Jesus healing from a distance without visiting the patient, but should I have the same faith in our doctors?
Jesus didn’t even consult with the patient by Zoom or telephone or have the advantage of photograph, but had a spiritual connection that healed them where they were. The healing happened because people went to him and asked, begged or prayed, for him to heal or drive out a demon. It’s difficult to get a face to face consultation with a doctor in the Covid climate, but healing can happen from a distance and you can help!
She’s our sister, let’s make her better!
A message to celebrate One World Week
Read: Matthew 22: 34-46
I would like to sing, but I wont’t. The song would be: He’s got the whole wide world in his hands, He’s got the whole world in his hands….
The world is like a new born child that a Father looks at in awesome wonder at the beginning of a great love story. It is a love from the beginning that has no ending!
Dear Friends,
It’s never too late
but earlier is better!
Luke 23: 42-43
I don’t know if you can still do it, but there was a time when, if you didn’t have any money, you could make a reverse charge call to friends and family. They would be asked if they wanted to receive the call so had the option to say, “NO!” That would be like having the door slammed in your face when going to ask a neighbour for some help — and, possibly, the end of a relationship.
Dear Friends,
“Is not this what I choose, to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house…”
Isaiah 58: 7
In 1990 there were 150,000 homeless people in the country and I was among those demanding Government action, but thirty years later the number has more than doubled. The number of homeless people is much worse than the figures tell us though and the solutions more complex than building new houses.
Dear Friends,
Better people
make a better world!
We all know that the health of the world is not good and that we need to do something to make it better. But what?
The world has been exploited, polluted, poisoned and abused so we need to do something to make it better: But how?
Dear Friends,
When you take away the plank from your eye
trust someone else to remove the splinter…
Matthew 7: 1-5
If you have ever removed a speck of something from someone’s eye you will know how careful and gentle you need to be. You will be trusted to hold the eyelid up and look inside to identify where the problem is so that you can gently brush it out with a finger.
Dear Friends,
Don’t pray for a miracle —
Listen to the warnings!
Matthew 21: 33-46
Donald Trump said something that made me realise that we wouldn’t need miracles if we did as we were told! He said the treatment he received for coronavirus was a miracle from God, but would he have needed such mighty intervention if he had listened to all the warnings?
Dear Friends,
Victims or victors:
who will inspire?
John 19: 28-30 and Luke 24: 1-8
However much we might want to we can’t change history, but by telling some of the untold stories we can understand it differently and make a better future!
October is Black History Month and I am always inspired by the stories of people I had never heard of before — the hidden figures who have overcome the adversity of racism to help shape our communities. There were some on television last night and credit to ITV for commissioning several new shows for Black History Month including, Alison Hammond: Back to School which heralded some black people whose achievements have been absent from the school curriculum for too long.