Month: June 2019

Thirty two years ago today, my mother died. This year’s anniversary is significant because I’m now the same age as her when she passed. (I’ve mentioned this before, recently.) If…

9.00 am: Continued reading:

7.45 am: There are days when you wake to discover an unexploded bomb in the Inbox. Today, there were two. Both were dispiriting and potentially dangerous, but not undefusable. They…

Though troubles assail,And dangers affright;Though friends should all fail,And foes all unite,Yet one thing secures us,Whatever betide:The Scripture assures us,‘The Lord will provide‘(John Newton, ‘The Lord Will Provide’ (1775)). 8.00…

What keeps sleep at bay throughout the night?: regrets about poor decisions; the anticipation of a fall; self recriminations over things that are long past and unalterable; the dissimulations of…

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joys (Proverbs 14.10). Sunday, June 23. 11.15 am: I attended St Padarn’s Church, Llanbadarn Fawr, just over the parish…

My resting thoughts are one long prayer these days. 7.45 am: Morning: cold but sunny: 8.30 am: A communion. 9.15 pm: I composed a prayer for friendship, before carrying on…

Summer Solstice, 8.00 am: A communion. Overnight, I’d received an encouraging email from a friend from an ocean away. In our exchange, we discussed the sometimes uncomfortable experience of living…

7.30 am: A communion. There’re periods in our lives when the future appears to taper, as opportunities are either lost or denied us, and hopes and anticipations prove groundless. The…