So many beautiful things! Do you also marvel, as you look at Instagram, at how many times we post what we see of His creation? We are 'programmed' to appreciate what He has made. Then we are 'programmed to appreciate God? Have a God-shaped hole which only He can fill?...

Covid and lockdown may have put relationships under very real strain but - admit it - for us they are always quite a challenge. Jesus really nailed it for us when He summarized the Ten Commandments into only two: We are to love God with everything we've got and...

Shirley at the launch of Nick's new charity. At the end of her life she said, "We've just had Easter and it has been so special to me." I remember the days when she kept saying, "I've never been happy." In the last weeks of her life she said, "I'm so happy, I'm so...

A flustered sea so calm a while ago and now all in a tither! Whenever I feel I'm losing my peace and getting stressed I know I need quiet time with God. I get stirred up and need to be still with Him for as long as it takes. Don't let me ever try to do life any other...

Bombs fall, famine bites, Covid hangs around - where is "safe"? So I look it up and read this: "If you devote your heart to Him and stretch out your hands to Him ..." (Job 11:13) "You will be secure because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in...

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"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say in Zion, 'Your God reins!'" (Isaiah 52:7). And who together pray for Ukraine. What a beautiful thing! Think of the 'crowd of...

Somebody's got big feet. But this is exactly right for a Jacana chick - thank you Heather for this wonderful pic taken in Botswana on your holiday. When I saw it I immediately thought, "I've got so much growing to do - such big shoes to fill - as I strive to become...