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Yesterday, musing on Keith and Kristyn Getty’s song ‘There is a higher throne’, reminded me of the song from the musical ‘Carousel’: Take me beyond the pearly gates,Through a beautiful marble hall,Take me before the highest throneAnd let me be judged by the highest judge of all!… Fairground worker Billy Bigelow falls in love withContinue reading “The Highest Judge…And Skips”

There is a higher throneThan all this world has knownWhere faithful ones from every tongueWill one day come.Before the Son we’ll standMade faultless through the Lamb;Believing hearts find promised grace—Salvation comes. As a child I was taught that if you give your life to Jesus then you will go to heaven. I embraced this simpleContinue reading “There Is A Higher Throne”

I met Tony this morning. He complained about the council, vandals, thoughtless drivers, politicians, the local hospital… Nothing is ever good or right with Tony. It’s not about whether his glass is half full or half empty… he has less than everybody else, the drinks aren’t what they used to be, they cost too muchContinue reading “Praiseworthy and Excellent!”

I got up this morning creaking. It took a while to get my bits going… Musing on the friend whose brother recently had a heart attack; earlier this week her husband had a stroke… Several friends reflecting on the effects of long term Covid on those close to them… Several recent conversations with friends aboutContinue reading “Into perspective…”

On Tuesday grandson Luca came to tea, requesting ‘toad in the hole’. We googled ‘toad-in-the-hole’… Apparently putting meat in a batter has been around for centuries – it first appeared in print in 1762! Why toad-in-the-hole? I like the improbable story of a golf tournament in the town of Alnmouth in Northumberland, where the localContinue reading “Improbable and impossible”

Musing on ‘Get Set!’ The race has been planned, the competitors lined up, the starter says: ‘On your marks; Get set; Go!’ It’s about being ready. The easing of restrictions following lockdown has caused many folk to ‘Get set’ – the business that’s re-opening, the couple that have been waiting to get married, the hip-replacementContinue reading “Get Set!”

When the children were young there was an often repeated joke that went ‘Look up, look down, your trousers/pants are falling down’. It was one of those family in-jokes that was funny to them, but meant nothing to anyone else. Musing on ‘Look up… look down’ Jokes…. Many variations… The monkeys on top of theContinue reading “Look Up Look Down”

Antidote to grumpiness… Our bird-feeders hang from the apple tree in our back garden. They’re frequently my source of therapy – for musing on my mistakes, problems and grumpiness. There are the bigger birds – jays, magpies, crows that are bullies, blackbirds that are always cheerful, woodpeckers that peck wood – and peanuts, The squirrelContinue reading “Goldfinches”

O father of the fatherlessIn whom all families are blessedI love the way you father me Musing on Graham Kendrick’s song… Today’s Father’s Day. King David described his God as ‘A father to the fatherless…’ Yesterday I was talking to Rebecca, who teaches 2-5 year-olds, about the effects of children growing up without the loveContinue reading “Father of the Fatherless”

‘No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; anyContinue reading “No Man Is An Island”