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07/11/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 7th November 2025

In the dying ..nature wears Heaven’s crown.

And in ‘Flanders Fields”, Poppy petals have been replaced by grotesque shapes of twisted metal, crumbled concrete, and ravished landscapes as if in some depraved modern art version of the ‘Rememberance'.

Across the world, devastation makes up the statue to our “Flanders Field commitment to remember them. And the cause they died for. A fight against Tyranny. A fight against the bullies of the world. A fight against ego.

Our news channels are full of the monstrosities of our war-ravaged vistas. So how do we remember them? If ever there was to be evidence of the effectiveness of our Christian testimony, all we have to do is look around us.

And pray!

Pray for the strength to wear Kingdom’s crown. To pray for the strength and the will to ‘Remember’ them and their cause. To take a stand against the egos of the world and to be a mirror of His Grace, Peace and Understanding.

Place yourself in a Flanders Field and hope you are not forgotten because you do not lie there alone. Remember them not only on 11 November but every day as you tend to the gardens in your own Flanders Fields. Amen

31/10/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 31st October 2025

Fellowship. One word! One word that brings with it a connection that is at the core of our human existence.

Fellowship with humanity is not about idle chatter. Rather, it is the exploration of the very character of the soul we are engaging with. It is the foundation to understanding what makes our fellow human beings tick. How they feel. Their sadness and their joy. Their trials and their triumphs. Sometimes, fellowship is not just about words; it is about presence. The understanding that even in our silence, our souls speak to one another.

And then there is our fellowship with God.

A fellowship in Prayer, Praise and Worship that form part of the cornerstone of our Faith. But it is in our fellowship with the Holy Spirit that we start to truly discover what fellowship and the presence of God is all about.

Those moments when we know, no matter how badly we express ourselves, that He really understands us. And then there are the times when, in our stillness, we feel and hear His presence deep within us. A feeling of absolute peace descends upon us in a ‘snuggle’ moment with the Trinity.

Truly then ... Fellowship is food for the soul. Feed with open mouths! Without it we are unfed and starving. Empty shells where even our ego can only listen to its own echo.

24/10/2025

Fridayfootprints-Friday24th October 2025

No matter how skilled the artist, or in modern times, the programmer, photo editor, and the like, they will only produce imitations of creation.

As we ponder on the proliferation of fake news and Artificial Intelligence that threatens to consume the very world we live in, the question has to be, when will someone produce a replica God? An AI version of the real thing!

And no matter how close they come, and no matter how attractive the image may be, and no matter how many people are sucked in to the false narrative of fake news ... God will remain God. There will never be another version of Him .. for better or worse!

No matter how we fool ourselves with fancy churches, lights and sound effects, God remains in His creation. A place where we can connect with Him and discover the unmanipulated version of who He is.

Let the Holy Spirit be who He is supposed to be as the wind and the fire of our faith. May we be filled with His Spirit, thanks to the Grace of our Lord and Saviour. Amen

17/10/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 17th October 2025

As nature gathers to feed on the fruits gifted by creation ...

Is this not a reminder that the fruits of the Spirit are there for our sustenance to be used to the Glorification of God?

Dwell with the Lord of Lords, may He dwell in you as the Spirit moves to bless you with gifts that bear fruit. Fruits needed by humanity on the journey each of us has been assigned.

May your footprints on the road you travel be the evidence and testimony of His fruits.

The Holy Spirit blesses you with gifts to bear fruit for the world and bring peace. A peace that is evident in the spirit of nature as it feeds on what creation has to offer.

We must feed in fellowship with nature and sit at His table laden with Gifts,

Amen!

10/10/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 10th October 2025

There are roads to be travelled. Veins that carry the lifeblood of our faith.

Memory roads that wander through the landscape of our existence as we journey back to places and relive times gone by.

And then there are rivers! No longer bubbling streams eager in their youth, but rather lazy rivers that meander slowly and powerfully, filled with promise.

Roads and rivers meet from time to time. Sometimes the path across is easy, over bridges, and sometimes we just need to get our feet wet and wade through the powerful currents.

Rivers and roads fill the Eden of our wilderness’ that we traverse, where we can experience God and all His Grace has to offer. But we cannot avoid the roads and the rivers in our lives. They are the veins that supply the heart of our Faith. Let His Spirit flow with the blood that pulses through us and experience all that creation has to offer.

03/10/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 3rd October 2025

Pathways or stepping stones
Scattered rocks with dried-out bones

Leafy trees or grassy plains
Dusty deserts starved of rain

Mirrored pools to bubbling streams
Find memories or shattered dreams

Long paved highways or potholed roads
Sing-along songs or choirs of toads

Hills with hope above the valley bare
He has Risen, in Heaven, He is there

Floral blossoms and scented blooms
Fill castles, homes and empty tombs.

In Nature’s presence, rest my soul
Let creation’s Spirit make me whole.

26/09/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 26th September 2025

We do not need perfect wings to flutter from flower to flower, pollinating and feeding on the Glory of God.

It is often the most battered and broken who deliver the most meaningful testimony! It is only in our darkest moments that we finally realise that we are nothing without Him. There is just so much that we can do in our own strength, and it comes to a point where we can take matters no further on our own.

It is then, when we hand over to God, His strength takes over, and then, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we allow our footsteps to be guided down a road filled with the presence and miracle-working power of His Grace.

Don’t wait for perfect wings!

Fly in His strength. Traverse the garden you have been given. Find the flowers where your testimony will bear fruit. Sup on the nectar of His Word and spread the pollen of testimony throughout Creation.

19/09/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 19th September 2025

If I make it to heaven, will there be flowers?

A forest with a sunlit glade,
A bubbling stream
And a deep blue lake
Will there be birdsong
And an eagle’s cry
A fog duet
And a hound to howl at the moon?

Will there be vistas
That fill the horizon,
Landscapes that fill the soul?

Will I be able to dance
Through floral fields
Holding hands with angels on wings?

Heaven is His creation,
A home where I can dwell
A place that is here inside me
His presence I know so well
So let my heaven be filled By His Spirit
That He may be in me
Just as heaven is a destiny
Where in Him I would be.

12/09/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 12th September 2025

Floral Fellowship in nature’s blossom-filled rooms speak to the soul of man.

Vistas of mountains, valleys and far-sighted plains echo through the chambers of our thoughts as we make up future dreams and aspirations.

Any view we have of nature speaks to our inner being in a way that gets a spiritual connection to a face that we sometimes struggle to understand. How we relate to this ‘power’ and what name we give it can never detract from the fact that it exists.

Yet this is only the beginning. Once we accept it as fact, we can then explore the power of this Holy Spirit!

Created for our benefit and as the counterbalance to our earthly existence, He is there to guide us, fulfil us and take us into experiences of an unworldly nature.

Meet Him! Enjoy Him! Immerse yourself in Him and let Him immerse Himself in you.

05/09/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 5th September 2025

As the barren ground aches for a garden, or the desert plain aches for the cooling mists of the shrouded mountain tops, so it is that amongst all aches it is the soul that aches for His word that consumes our search.

Deemed by some impossible or seemed implausible by others, still, we go in search of Him and His Word.

We long to find His Whispers as they float like fragrances in the gardens of our Eden.

There to breathe in the substance of His presence. To stand open-mouthed, all the better to enhance the aroma. Maximising the chance to absorb every element of His Word, as it is carried on a gentle breeze, lit by the early morning rays that illuminate the Peace and Grace that fellowship with nature brings.

Nature is in the character of our Lord, its creator, and like Him, its beauty and bounty knows no end.

29/08/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 29th August 2025

Close your eyes and feel the space around you.

Can you sense His presence? Then, without touch or sight, let His voice wipe the tears from your cheeks. Let His words be the arms of comfort that hold your body firm against His.

May each syllable of His Words echo through the chambers of your heart as they melt away fear and anxiety.

And as the vapour of His breath washes over you, you are cleansed of all your worries until only the vibrations of His voice are left to fill the air that blankets you.

Dwell in the realm of His voice where He is Lord of your kingdom and nothing but His word exists.

22/08/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 22nd August 2025

As we climb the shaft of our faith to reach the sweetness of His Grace, which hangs like fingers reaching down as the hand of salvation.

Surely, to spend time in nature, we broaden our perspective of God and add depth to the analogy that creation displays on its “Son’ lit stage.

The cathedral that offers to strengthen our faith is blessed with choirs that chant in soul-reaching sound. Filling our hearts with a sense of peace and understanding unmatched in our human world.

The canticles, hymns and gospel readings are all found in nature’s audio and visual diorama. To enter into a state of meditative awareness of the presence of the Trinity is so much easier in the Eden that surrounds us.

So rest awhile and feel our Creator speak in an exhibition of Nature’s holiness.

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