I am surprised to think that the school summer holidays begin now. I know for teachers, parents and pupils the anguish they have recently experienced probably makes the holidays seem ludicrous for a variety of reasons. Ludicrously late in coming for teachers and ludicrously unmanageable for working parents and ludicrously isolating and prolonged for pupils… Read More »
Our welcome to Bishop Rose Hudson Wilkin as our new Patron and the licensing for Ray Horton as Lay Assistant Chaplain took place assisted by Archdeacon Jo Kelly Moore, our Core Team and Trustees and a few special guests. We were blessed by worship, sunshine and gazebos, music, flowers, fruit punch, strawberries and ice-cream in… Read More »
‘Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop – a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear.’ Matt 13: 8-9.Gardening has never been more popular. Those of us fortunate enough to have our own garden, large or small, have found ourselves with plenty of… Read More »
In 1 Peter 4:10 we read, “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” God has given gifts to each of us from His great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God’s generosity can flow through us. How does… Read More »
In many ways I have found myself to be ‘all over the place’ in recent weeks: sometimes grateful and rejoicing, sometimes deeply saddened and lamenting, sometimes questioning, sometimes enjoying the slower pace and sometimes angry or fed up with the whole affair and so on…. As a flawed human being I am not capable of… Read More »
I am delighted to announce that Bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson Wilkin is to become Patron to The Living Well. We will be welcoming Bishop Rose in Nonington who will be licensing Ray Horton as Assistant Lay Chaplain in the month of July – one year after our Core Team was commissioned. Please uphold us… Read More »
A voice of one calling: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and… Read More »
I don’t know about you, but the differences and difficulties between us have been highlighted greatly since the death of George Floyd and the world has seemed a sad place. We read in Acts 17:26, “He created all the people of the world from one human, Adam.” Every man and woman created equally in God’s… Read More »
I am a huge Stevie Wonder fan since my youth having seen him when I was about 17 or 18 at Wembley, I would love to see him in concert again one day. So one of my activities during lockdown was to watch a DVD of his 2008 concert from the O2 (Where was I… Read More »
So when they met together, they asked him, ‘Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?’ He said to them: ‘It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on… Read More »