Do you ever ask yourself: is it all going to be ok? As you look at the world around us: is it all going to be ok? Perhaps it’s the endless list of crises on the news that concern you:… Read More »Reflections On the Servant Songs in Isaiah
I can’t remember a darker time in my life than the end of 2020 (and I know I’m not alone in that realization). I had gone back for a visit to the States in an attempt to combat some of the … Read More »Lead From Your Bed
Before I had even reached my sixtieth birthday, I started to think that I was getting old, that very soon I would be able to apply for an ‘Older Person’s Bus Pass’ for free bus travel! But as I still… Read More »Reflections on Later Life
Recently, I finished the study book ‘Growing in gratitude’ with one of my friends. My motivations for choosing to study this book were far from the title of the book, simply because the front cover was very pretty (haha), vain,… Read More »Growing in Gratitude
Christians are urged to rejoice with those who rejoice, but what to we do when we find it hard to rejoice with others?
I have a love-hate relationship with Christian books that major on the ‘How Tos’. Whilst I have appreciated and found value in some of them, I also find them quite draining at times and I could never quite put my… Read More »Our Endless Pursuit of the Victorious Looking Christian Life
What’s in the Store cupboard? Ice-cream, cake, easy microwave meals quickly bought, quickly gone, or are the staples there: meat or pulses, veg and fruit, milk and cheese, flour and pasta, rice: things that can be drawn upon to make… Read More »What’s in the Store Cupboard?
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10 Whenever I read this verse, I am comforted that my life has been created for a purpose. But when I start… Read More »Trust You With a Little
Change is part of life, and most of us don’t really like it. We’re used to the status quo, reasonably comfortable, or at very least able to cope with how things are – the known, the familiar, the safe. Or… Read More »Dealing with Change
The feeling of loss If you were to ask me a year ago what my biggest fear in life would be, I would have said to have all the things I love in my life be taken away from me.… Read More »Student Reflections on Covid Disruptions