by Tony Horsfall | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog
It’s a scene that was played out so many times during my marriage. I would be scratching around trying to find something, and Evelyn would ask in her gentle, Scottish accent, ‘What have you lost?’ The answer would usually be something like my pen / car keys / glasses....
by Tony Horsfall | Jan 18, 2021 | Blog
Some time ago I was helping my grandson George into his car seat in the back of my car, when I accidentally banged his head. He started to cry. ‘Come on, George, be brave,’ I said. ‘But I don’t want to be brave,’ he replied. I guess we all know that feeling. Sometimes...
by Tony Horsfall | Dec 16, 2020 | Blog
During 2020 the experience of lockdown has impacted all we do, and in particular caring for loved ones who are terminally ill, and grieving those who have passed away. My wife Evelyn had been struggling with a recurrence of breast cancer for over four years when she...
by Tony Horsfall | Dec 31, 2019 | Blog
So the new decade is here. I cannot think about the year 2020 without thinking of Malaysia, a country I came to love deeply during the time we lived there (1975-83), a beautiful country with beautiful people. The reason it comes to mind is because in 1991 the then...
by Tony Horsfall | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog
Imagine receiving a birthday gift, beautifully wrapped and personalised for you, and then putting it away in a drawer, unopened, unused and forgotten. What a waste, you may think, and how ungrateful that would be. Yet many of us do exactly that with the gifts God has...
by Tony Horsfall | Sep 14, 2018 | Blog
Earlier this week a group of us from church were reflecting on the story of the Rich Young Ruler in Mark 10:17-27. He was the kind of person everyone would love to have in their church – youthful, well-off and influential – and we would have done our best to make him...
