Sheila Bridge Blog
Today I began my training regime for my big summer ride. I rode 615 miles around Draycote Water!!!! No kidding - check this out: And if you look closely, I went all that way and didn't even make it home! I wouldn't have minded but it was a bit galling to find out I'd gone... Continue Reading →
Earlier this week a had a lovely encounter in second hand shop that reminded me that where we can take small actions to help someone else, the effect can be out of all proportion to the effort. My second cousin had been staying for a long weekend. A whole generation below me in age, she... Continue Reading →
There is something missing in the gospels! I am shocked! So often we read the Bible so closely to see what IS there, it's not often that I am so forcefully struck by something that is NOT there. Yesterday I took a primary school assembly on ‘how to pray’. Using a teaspoon, I taught the... Continue Reading →
My mother has given me a vest. I am well past the age for maternal guidance on my underwear, but this is no ordinary vest. This vest is a memory. It is the embodiment of moment in time that Mum wants to be remembered, which is why, even given that it is completely useless, she... Continue Reading →
Or, in the words of Clint Eastwood, 'I'll be back'! I don't know which it will be. This is just to say I have had a bit of a battle with this wordpress blog site. It shut me out and now (by some miracle I don't understand) I've managed to log back in, I'm concerned... Continue Reading →
What would church be like if this notice was put on all church doors and we actually meant it? We extend a special welcome to those who are single, married, divorced, gay, filthy rich, dirt poor. ‘Dydw I ddim yn siarad Seasneg’. We extend a special welcome to those who are crying, to new-borns, to... Continue Reading →
Has anyone else noticed it's been trying to snow again today? It feels like a divine nudge to me - this morning God told me I needed to learn how to snowboard! Yeah right, like that's going to happen! I'd be a bit of baby when it comes to snowboarding. So there's no chance I'm... Continue Reading →
I have no idea if this really is a photo of the claimed author of this wisdom or even if there is a such a person as Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio but I hope there is and I hope she won't mind me reproducing this onto my... Continue Reading →
In the last week or so there have been many film montages of 'memorable moments' from 2012 and many a gushing commentator has spoken about the 'Spirit of the Olympics'. It struck me at the time that many of the qualities that were being applauded (friendliness, helpfulness, cheerfulness, hospitality) are fairly fundamental Christian qualities. Not that I... Continue Reading →
Friday 21st December 10.30pm: David and I are really, really tired. Knowing we would have a late night picking up Matthew from the airport on the following night, we had turned in early. By 10.30 it was lights out and we were sound asleep. We were blissfully unaware that at that very moment his flight... Continue Reading →
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