Category: Life Thoughts
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Phillip Pokett and the Robobed
I wrote this simple story in 2004 but never published it. Called ‘Phillip Pokett and the Robobed’, it is a Christian-themed tale for young children with life-limiting illnesses. I wrote the story in a somewhat feeble attempt to raise money for The Chestnut House in Sussex and Hampshire, England. If you read the story, which […]
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Burning darkness
Christingle The darkness of the early evening pervades the icy streets, despite the glow of city lights. I walk with my family up a high street and into a rectangular churchyard. We tread carefully along an unlit path and past a collection of vintage gravestones, looking somewhat foreboding in the shadows. Then we duck to […]
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God sees our troubles – The Crosswalk Devotional
Please click here to read this devotional I wrote for Crosswalk.com, based in the USA. Note: Copyright for this written devotional is solely owned by the owners of that website, not myself (Christopher Eyte).
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The Call of Nobody – The Crosswalk Devotional
Please click this link here to read this devotional I wrote for Crosswalk.com, based in the USA. Note: Copyright for this written devotional is solely owned by the owners of that website, not myself (Christopher Eyte).
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The dad who runs to you
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” [Matthew 13:14] _ “Father God… father me.” The words have come to me a lot recently and I don’t know […]
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“This is no life. No life at all.”
The words were muttered in agony from a skeletal old man, propped up on white pillows in a hospital bed with a blanket half-wrapped around his thin legs. He had frazzled, balding hair with circular glasses. His body was arched to the side and his striped pajama top had been left open, exposing his chest. […]
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Cure for the two imposters
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; [from Rudyard Kipling, ‘If’] I remember standing in Arundel Cathedral in West Sussex some 26 years ago and reading those words […]
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Sky
It’s difficult these days to get a good view of the sky at night, isn’t it? What with all the town lights and aeroplanes flashing in the darkness overhead. But when I’ve been able to catch a glimpse, well it’s been amazing and reminds me how strangely wonderful our Creator God is. Like it says […]
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‘Where has God gone?’
A response to R.S. Thomas Where has God gone? The mind’s branchesare empty and withoutsong. Their leaves are encrustedwith town dust.(‘The Lesson,’ Uncollected Poems, p. 143)_ He has gone to your head. He cares,The Raptor counting sparrows there,You won’t find him in town or nature’s dust;steady cascades pushing lost pine needles,mind mapping firs, sweeping from […]
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Weird
Christianity didn’t make sense. I remember standing in front of a church pastor with my fist gripped in my pocket, wanting to smash his face. He was sitting in a chair, smiling at me, saying that God’s ‘grace’ through Jesus had achieved all that I need – I could sit on a chair as he […]
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