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I built a castle on the beach. As it does every day, the tide came in and went out again, so I built a boat, and the next day, a fort – which I defended valiantly from the waves until

One of the most important things we learn in life, very often from our mothers, is discernment. Whether it’s not being too trusting of strangers when we’re little, or not falling for scams when we are grown up, it’s important

In the 1880s, a wealthy father promises his young son a horse of his own for his 21st birthday. But when the day comes, instead of a horse, he gives him a motor car. Did he keep his promise, or not?

Almost everybody – apart from the very privileged – go through times when they worry about the future. But at present there do seem to be more reasons for anxiety than normal. The cost of living crisis shows no sign

I wonder what you consider to be valuable. Maybe you invested (or are investing) years of work to achieve something special, and the value comes from the cost in time or money. Maybe you have a valuable job or pension

Most of us are profoundly shaped by our parents and their expectations for us. Alongside their expectations for our behaviour growing up, they also impart, sometimes more explicitly, sometimes more accidentally, a raft of assumptions about the kind of lifestyle

I read recently that one sign of a bright child is that the child will make up new rules for a game. Making up a new game or extending an existing game is one thing, but I’ve also seen children

Sitting down to eat, just before dusk, at the Beachcomber Café in Barton-on-Sea, we could see a light coming from the Isle of Wight. What was it? Why was it there? We don’t know for sure, but it looked like

There’s been some noise in the media recently about what it means to bless something. It is an expression of approval? Is it an affirmation of right-ness? Or is it simply bringing God into a situation with the expectation and

Even a casual reading of 1st Corinthians quickly reveals that when Paul was writing, the church in Corinth was in a mess. Paul needs to address a wide variety of pastoral situations in the church, ranging from serious sexual immorality,