Louise Harris

I have known God’s tender comfort and healing when my heart has been broken, and I’ve experienced this directly and also very often through others. It leads me to think how do we reflect this in the way we treat others around us.

Elaine Utting

During a hot spell a pot in my backyard had become very dry. The root growth had filled it, so there was no room for the water, and it was running off the sides. Once I’d noticed, I began to give it a little water several times a day instead.

David Francis

Horlicks and Ian Dury and the Blockheads! Not a combination you might think would in any way connects to this week’s inspiration. However, our visit to Colonel Sir James Horlicks‘ Achamore gardens provided "reasons to be cheerful" (Ian Dury reference) at every step.

Joy Revie

Ian and I have recently completed walking the West Highland Way - 96 miles through everchanging landscape. Often the path seemed daunting as we looked ahead, yet perfectly manageable when we looked back! Looking down gave a very different perspective.

Nam Biyani

Every-time I read the story of Peter walking on water with Jesus it makes me think that was it not obvious that a man stepping out of boat into the sea would drown? But, in Peter’s case, God made an exception.

Ian Revie

How often do we get to the start of a new day, or end of the same, and think we feel far away from God? Since I was young I have always leaned on the fact that, when I feel like this, we just need to pray “God you know my heart” and somehow the prayer is made.

Helen Francis

Most of us will have a favourite scripture, a reading that really speaks to us. For me it's Psalm 27 because so much of it echoes my own walk with God. These are some of the verses that speak to me, especially in the King James translation…

Louise Harris

I had been crying out to my Heavenly Father while feeling hopeless and I just couldn’t see a way forwards, when this phrase popped up in a daily reading. It really struck me and I clung to it, I just knew I had to hold on tight and wait to see what God would do.

Elaine Utting

I recently received an email offering me my spring COVID-19 booster vaccination. I started thinking of how a vaccination works. It gives us a little bit of the infection so the body can learn to recognise it and start to fight back.

David Francis

Susan Boyle was initially not perceived be a singer of any repute when she appeared on ‘Britain's Got Talent’. Ever hopeful, she sang to the sceptical audience and judges. Things changed! She went on to win launching her long held desire to be a professional singer.

Joy Revie

‘I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?’ What an amazingly reassuring and uplifting verse, brimming with hope and endless possibilities. But how does this work out in the daily reality of our lives?

Nam Biyani

Jesus knew that his disciples were going to betray him and still he washed their feet! It leaves me stunned thinking about Jesus’s compassion and love for his Disciples. And when I say today I am his Disciple, knowing that I too am a recipient of this amazing love!

Jennifer Fletcher

This Easter marks my 22nd year as a committed follower of Jesus. On September 11th 2001, I was about to board a plane to Hong Kong when I heard the news that two planes had flown in to the World Trade Centre in New York.

Ian Revie

I don’t know about you but I probably have listened too much to the news with doom & gloom about conflicts, endless food shortages and political disruption across the world. I have taken to stop listening to the news, but is this the answer?

Helen Francis

The joy of Spring is beginning to burst all around us and what an exciting, hopeful time it is. After the dark, cold, dead of winter, the lengthening daylight and spreading warmth is coaxing fresh green shoots to push upwards through the soil.

Louise Harris

At this time of year I am careful observing the change of the season. I track a little bit of extra light each day before the sun goes down and the developing buds on my Magnolia tree, my favourite thing in my garden. I’m impatiently saying “Come on Spring!”

Jennifer Fletcher

How do you measure success? A “good job”, wealth, material possessions, thriving children, happiness? Early on in my faith, a guest speaker defined success as “hearing God and obeying”. I love this! It levels the playing field.

Isobel Akers

Shrove Tuesday used to be known as the day when pancakes would be made with all the “fine ingredients from the household larder.” These were to be consumed on that day, allowing abstinence from delicacies of all kinds until the end of Lent.

Elaine Utting

Where I live there is a tree growing in the pavement outside my house. We love watching the seasons change - new growth in spring, full leaf in summer, the falling leaves in the autumn. But one of the downsides is those falling leaves clogging up our little front garden.

David Francis

When I’m involved in sour dough breadmaking, I see in it many comparisons with what God has done for us in Christ. On one occasion, as the baked loaves came out of the oven, I said: ‘Here’s one I prepared earlier!’