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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.

15/08/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 15th August

Sunlight on our shoulders
The warmth of the rising Son
To dwell in quiet reflection
And to know how far we’ve come

The light that lies before us
Leaves the darkness far behind
The road that we have travelled
It is for the seeing, not the blind

A light amongst the shadows
Softly coaxing us along
Until one day, we find ourselves
Singing lyrics from a joyful song

As nature beckons us forward
Its peace and stillness call
They are the crutches we carry with us
To help us when we fall

Look for the sunlight in your life
When all is doom and gloom
Walk hand in hand with nature
Smell the scent of every bloom.

08/08/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 8th August 2025

Spring is in the air as Mother Nature dons her Barbie Doll party dress.

There is a presence in the gardens of our wilderness. A presence of expectation and joy.

A feeling that begins deep in the heart and bubbles over into all those around us. There are angels in the air, like fairy goddesses, they line the paths we tread to each of our tomorrows.

They are the bridal confetti that are laid out before us.

Welcoming and promising
Let the spring of faith capture your heart. Faith that everything is ordained as it should be and the courage to accept it.

May that be our prayer. Lord, give us strength in Faith and the courage beyond measure! Amen

01/08/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 1st August 2025

There are snow-capped mountains in our lives that need to be climbed.

Cold and unforgiving places.

Places that can only be reached through faith and the support of the Christian community around us. When either of these is not in place, the ascent is perilous, unforgiving and unfulfilling.

Yet when they are. When our faith is fueled by prayer and worship, when our Christian brotherhood and sisterhood surround us, it is as if the arms of the mountain open up to reveal the most glorious relationship God has with us. Filled with splendour. A place that provides sustenance to all those who come to feed.

Open your arms and your hearts to those in need. Search for those in pain and hardship, and as you lift your arms to the heavens, snow-capped peaks will become a blossom of blessing in the lives of those who need Him. Amen

25/07/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 25th July 2025

The scent of God

Have you sensed His presence? Take a deep breath. Breath in the aroma of Him!

Know that He is near, as the aroma of His perfume fills the air around you like a spring garden.

These are the moments when you are so tuned into Him that you can feel the blanket of His existence fold around you, bringing comfort, warmth, peace and strength.
Taking the time to focus on God is a skill and activity that adds so much to our walk with Him. When our soul can be calmed, we will experience those ‘goosebump’ moments knowing He is near.

Lord, help me to focus only on You. Let my thoughts and desires be concentrated on becoming aware of Your presence. And when you are near Lord, let my prayers be for others and for the strength to carry them. Amen

18/07/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 18th July 2025

Faith develops and deepens over time if we devote ourselves to the purpose for which we have been created.

What may at first seem like a very spiky, hostile centre is purely the forerunner of the sweetest, most perfect blossoms that are a reflection of His power and majesty.

Time spent in prayer, praise, and worship, coupled with quiet meditation, is the recipe for deepening our faith. And it is in the hardest of times, that we must concentrate on allowing time for the spikes to turn into the blooms that they are meant to be.

To believe, to have absolute faith that we have been blessed by His Grace through our salvation by the Risen Lord, is the cornerstone of Christianity. Collect your bouquets of blossoms and spread them to the world. Let humanity see His perfectness in creation. Let nature be the testimony to His Glory. Amen

11/07/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 11th July 2025

Snowdrops of heaven that melt on my skin
Into droplets of water
As my baptism from sin!

A garden in paradise is my solitude, my calmness, my peace. It is a place where I am brought face to face with God. It is also where I am reminded, that for so many in the world, the beauty of nature and the closeness of God remain an illusion. A pipe dream!

Unattainable, elusive or at the very best just a road too far.

Our prayers go out to those who have yet to feel the soft touch of the Holy Spirit. And to those who experience only a baptism of war, and not a baptism of peace out of His Living Waters.

Our prayers go out for the politicians whose only thought is their ego and their pocket, as we beseech God to bring enlightenment to their hearts. To bring and end to fruitless war, poverty and hardship.

Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers. We lift our voices in praise of the living Christ so that He may strengthen us that we may strengthen others. Amen

04/07/2025

Fridayfootprints - Friday 4th July 2025

In the darkest of times, when all seems lost and the enemy is about to prevail, there is only one way to go!

Build yourself pillars of prayer!

Steeples that rise from the very depths of your soul.

Pour out your heart. Let your sins be the building blocks of your own personal church spire and let the bells ring out as angels hear your pleas.

We have a plea … a “Plea for Africa” - Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrica – perhaps it is time for us to come together and write the prayer as a plea for the world.

Let us join hands and hearts and soul and build pillars of prayer that reach deep into the heavens.

Lord, in your mercy ...hear our prayer!

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