In a troubled world, you might find this quote by D L Moody very helpful – “A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is enter into it.”

Here’s a good thought for the first Sunday in Advent – ‘Let’s approach Christmas with an expectant hush, rather than a last-minute rush’ (Anonymous).

It’s a busy time of the year but remember this – ‘We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God’ (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) – if we are not, we might just miss something very important.

D L Moody once wrote, ‘There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.’ We need people who are committed to doing the little things well. Is that you?

On Remembrance day, think on this – ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few’ (Winston Churchill, 20th August 1940. We shall remember them.