“Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” 1Peter 5:7 ” Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” James Buckham Kennedy “All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair. The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, andContinue reading “Weathered lavender , Astilbe, daffodils and Osterley.”
Category Archives: Walks
A walk at Cliveden along the Thames
Put all your anxiety on Him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5 : 7 I know it is not Christmas but with all the trees bare it was easy to see bright, green balls of mistletoe. Seeds joyfully spread by the birds and growing high up. The reflection of the tree on theContinue reading “A walk at Cliveden along the Thames”
Reading Museum
Oh Lord, You are our Father, we are the clay, and You are our Potter, and we are the work of Your hand. Isaiah 64 :8 An Australian platypus from the late 19th Century. In the 17th century they thought this animal a hoax. Why? They lay eggs, feed their young milk, use electroreception (detectContinue reading “Reading Museum”
A visit to Berkshire: The museum of Berkshire Aviation
No person can serve two masters for either they will hate the one, and love the other; or else they hold to the one and despise the other. You can’t serve God and wealth. Matthew 6 : 24 Woodley is famous for the Miles Aircraft factory on the former Reading Aerodrome. Miles designed and constructedContinue reading “A visit to Berkshire: The museum of Berkshire Aviation”
Walking through the Vyne Estate Hampshire.
This oak is considered to be 650 years old. Home to squirrels, jackdaws, nuthatches and where fungi has hollowed it out bats and invertebrates shelter. It is a shapely, characterful tree. A tree to ponder under. During Tudor times it would have shaded Henry VIII, first with Catherine of Aragon and later Anne Boleyn. MuchContinue reading “Walking through the Vyne Estate Hampshire.”
Looking through the ice at …
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the water is straitened…Do you know how the clouds are balanced? The wondrous works of Him which is perfect in knowledge. Job 37:10, 16 (In the natural world God has placed in the hands of us the key to unlock the treasure houseContinue reading “Looking through the ice at …”
Greys Court, The walled garden in January
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not stop. Acts 1: 7 This post is a contrast in seasons of two visits, the first during the very hot dry spell we had in summer and now this one in January with frostContinue reading “Greys Court, The walled garden in January”
A Sabbath walk and remembering
…and God will ( come close and personally ) wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there will be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither pain: because all this will be in the past . (For us who are sad.) Revelations 21 : 4 The days are short, there are puddles andContinue reading “A Sabbath walk and remembering”
Boxing day circular walk through Turville and Fingest.
Here is an unusual verse in my words : Don’t encourage me to spend time with the wicked and to work with them. Those who tell their neighbours that all is fine and peaceful but actually have ways to trick them. Psalm 28 : 3 ( I wonder how you would say this in yourContinue reading “Boxing day circular walk through Turville and Fingest.”
A walk into Sepia
Peter says God loves you very much and He wants you to know that time is not the same with the Lord. One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord gives importance to His promises; but He really doesn’t want us to perish .Continue reading “A walk into Sepia”
Leaves, frost and a walk.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8 : 28 Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolour, Summer a painting, And autumn a mosaic of them all Stanley Horowitz (author) I think I walked into a mosaicContinue reading “Leaves, frost and a walk.”
A Sabbath walk in Popes meadow
The Lord is full of tenderness and mercy. James 5 : 11 ” I hope I can be the Autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knows life was a gift.” Dodinsky Thank you for looking at Popeswood meadow. It was good to seeContinue reading “A Sabbath walk in Popes meadow”