VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well and prosperous. Let us remember the Japanese today as their country is battered by Typhoon Hagibis. The drenching We are getting in the British Isles seems like nothing by comparison. This week I would like to draw Your attention to those suffering from mental illness. This could be someone You … Continue reading A Prayer for the Mentally Ill
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I trust that this weekly column finds You well and healthy. This week I would like to pray for one of the magazine team who lost their mother on Saturday morning to cancer just a year after losing their father. Please hold her and her family in your thoughts and prayers. Death comes like a thief in the night. … Continue reading A Prayer for Protection
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine I wish You all the very best this September Sunday. I trust that You and Your families are well and burgeoning. This week I’d like to draw Your attention to asking for help. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat … Continue reading A Prayer for Assistance
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine it is a great honour as always to write these lines for You this Sunday. I trust that You are well and that Your families are healthy. One of the greatest joys in life is having grandchildren. Those of You who are lucky enough to see Your grandchildren should first think of those grandparents who cannot. This could … Continue reading A Prayer for Our Grandchildren
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well and happy. This week I’d like to focus on patience. I was watching a family have a curry the other night in a Gurkha restaurant. There were four of them – man, wife, daughter and son. The daughter and the wife were engaged in conversation and having a good … Continue reading A Prayer for Patience
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and Your families are well and enjoying the summer. This week I’d like to extend a prayer to those serving in the forces, those who have served in the forces, as well as those serving and who have served in the police. These men and women do and have done extraordinary things – they … Continue reading A Prayer for the Forces
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are healthy and that life is treating You and Your loved ones well. This week I would like You to look around You. It may be that You are looking at Your children, or photos of children. Look at Your home, Your car, Your pet. Look at the sky, the trees, the wildlife. Don’t … Continue reading A Prayer of Thanks
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well this beautiful, sunny Sunday morning. I hope Your loved ones are also well and that You all enjoy a peaceful day. I meet many families whose parents carry around with them piles of debt. I admire those fathers or mothers who keep the worry to themselves but I often fear for their … Continue reading A Prayer for Workaholics
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and that Your families are happy and healthy. Today I ask of You to pray with me for leadership for our country. Arguably these have been fallow days at a time when we have needed a strong leader rather than a manager for our country. Is that about to change? Is the … Continue reading A Prayer for Leadership
