Heart Warming

Psalm 127:13-14 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Sometimes the cross we have to carry seems ...

I wonder if you have had the immense pleasure of reading Kenneth Grahame’s children’s classic, ‘The Wind in the Willows’? Now if you are a fan,  you can join with me in smiling at the memory of the outrageous, but highly likeable, Mr. Toad. If you have not had the ...

Matthew 23:25-26 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may ...

Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. The channel billed cuckoo is an ingenious bird. The female cunningly spies another bird’s nest laden with eggs, and whilst that bird is away, ruthlessly tosses the eggs ...

‘No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty.’ So said C S Lewis and this is no truer than for the imaginative works that he wrote himself. Often I return to the ...