You were skimming through the pages of the Wee Paper when you came across this column: ‘Thought for the Week’.

You had probably noticed it before, but passed on with barely a thought. Religion is not for you, even the Christian variety. So, why bother?

Then something unaccountable happens in your life and you are left bewildered. This time you do engage with ‘Thought for the Week’. You may think you are clutching at another straw that never did anything for you before, but there has to be answers, if only you could find them.

The Bible is not a book of answers to life’s puzzling questions. If you have ever tried to read the Bible you probably think it is full of old stories that bear no relevance to the times in which we live, but you would be wrong.

Life has changed markedly and will go on changing. Technology, for example, has brought remarkable benefits. Recently I treated myself to a new mobile phone. I know I don’t get the best out of it because I have not taken the trouble to research it more widely. Life may have changed, but human nature rarely changes.

The Bible is not a mobile phone; but if you were to research it even superficially you would learn about life, and perhaps about yourself. There are no ‘quick fixes’.

For me, faith in Jesus Christ is my life line - and if it is not yours, where should you start?

One of my teachers at college wrote a book entitled: ‘A Sense of the Presence of God’. Should that strike you, you are on your way.