Sep 8, 2021
It’s never too late to learn a new skill! They’ve given me this iPad now I’m ninety-one Saying, “Come along now Granddad, it will give you lots of fun”. I’m finding out what it can do by trying this and that And a friend I have has helped me when she’s...
Sep 8, 2021
Jim is one of our Open Ears members with a real talent for poetry! I’m going to a meeting at two this afternoon. But I’m not going out you know, I’m staying in my room, Everyone attending will be doing just like me And we’ll enjoy each other’s company until it’s time...
Jul 29, 2021
“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day…” This morning, in my Bible study group, someone mentioned this verse – despite the fact that we are studying the book of Revelation! ...
Jun 11, 2021
I was going to tell you something I had found helpful in lockdown, and something I love about lockdown is that I get to wear my slippers! I live in my slippers often, and hardly go out. I love wearing my slippers! That’s one good thing about lockdown....
Apr 12, 2021
I love thinking about hope, by Emily Owen. Open Ears mini-conference by Zoom, 12th March 2021. I love thinking about hope, what a wonderful word. Romans 5:5 says “Hope does not disappoint us”. It does not disappoint us. A lot of hope is going around at the moment,...
Mar 24, 2021
You went into the darkness of that garden you loved. It had once been a place of refuge and prayer, a place where you could be still with your beloved father, where he would enrich you with his love and power and you would share the insights that came to you with...
Mar 11, 2021
Good afternoon, I am writing to you to enquire about helping me connect with possible participants to interview for my bachelor’s dissertation. I am a third-year Professional musicianship student at the British Institute of modern music. Writing about the...
Feb 25, 2021
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43v19 ESV Whenever I read this verse, I always feel a sense of excitement. Although it is part of an Old Testament...
Jan 28, 2021
A man who lived in my block of flats was well known to many of us. He was a cancer survivor and quite a character. Sadly, cancer then hit him again and he died. This man, we’ll call him Brian, had a communication problem. He wasn’t deaf but one of the operations...
Dec 22, 2020
May the love of God the Father bring unexpected comfort to your home today, connecting hearts that are apart, and reconfiguring family this Christmas. May the hope of God the Son, born into dark disruption and deep uncertainty, ignite a little light in your home...
