03 Feb Trust and obey
When I was a teenager I attended a youth camp on Anglesey at Benllech Bay I learned an important lesson - to trust and obey. The adjacent bay was known as Red Wharf Bay and it became a massive expanse of sand when the tide...
Inspiration
27 Jan Lost identity
Have you lost your identity? My heart goes out to all those who have lost jobs, careers, businesses and livelihoods during the pandemic. I can only imagine what that must feel like. Years of studying, working, practising, refining, investing - gone - through no fault of...
13 Jan Keep a grip on hope
The name Stuart Bee might not mean anything to you at all. He made the headlines towards the end of November last year when he took his motorboat along the Florida coast and went missing. Unfortunately his boat developed technical problems, filled up with water and capsized. After...
22 Dec Adore Him
I love Christmas - it surely is the most wonderful time of the year! One of the many things I look forward to is singing carols and one of my favourites is “O come all ye faithful” with it’s rousing chorus that builds to a...
16 Dec Don’t focus on the waves
Julia and I recently spent a few days in a beautiful Caswell Bay apartment on the Gower peninsula. The area is classified as an area of outstanding natural beauty, and it certainly lives up to this description. Our apartment was in a stunning location just...
08 Dec Be generous
It’s Christmastime (in case you didn’t realise!) and in conversation last night Julia and I discovered that, in separate incidents on the same day this week, we had both given money to people begging on the streets. Now I have to say this is not...
03 Dec His eye is on the sparrow
We have a comfy chair in our dining room that faces out onto our back garden. I will often sit in it, pray and reflect. I find it therapeutic, relaxing and a place to be still, reflect, quieten my heart and talk and listen to...
18 Nov Pray, wait, trust
There are times in our lives when we simply do not understand what God is doing or what God wants us to do. Personally I have been without a job since August 2nd. Unfortunately things weren’t working out in the church that I was leading and...
25 Sep Are You Looking In The Wrong Direction?
Have you ever stopped at a level crossing waiting for a train and whilst the warning lights flashed, tried to guess from which direction the train was coming from? More often than not we guess wrong. We are looking in the wrong direction. We met...
27 Mar How to deal with fear and anxiety?
How to deal with fear and anxiety? These are challenging, uncomfortable, crazy and I'm sure for many, anxious, fearful and perplexing times. None of us have been through this before. How do we respond? ...