Last night I tried to upload a countdown clock into my blog – dismal failure on my part! The truth is, I am getting just a tiny bit excited, for John and I will be celebrating our Ruby Wedding Anniversary in 23 days’ time. Well, I say celebrate… In the climate of the Coronavirus pandemic,…

“ A week is a long time in politics” ( Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of Great Britain, approx 1963) By any reference point you choose, this has been an extraordinary week here in the UK.  From government suggestions and guidelines right through to orders to close all places people would normally meet and gather this…

  Not posted in a while, as the last few months have been exceptionally difficult. My lovely mum has had not one but two major falls, the first one resulting in a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain, the second one onto exactly the same place on the back of her head, under highly…

Four Tools in God’s hand… A storm, a fish, a plant and a worm. Been meditating gently on Jonah recently. I think many of us can identify with a man who tries to run away from something he feels is hard for him to do. God clearly called Jonah to preach a sermon of impending…

Daniel chapter 3 gives us an incredible account of three men who found themselves in the middle of an inferno. It was a political inferno, instigated by those who hated Jews. It was also a very real inferno.   I believe there are several key principles in the story you probably know so well. Shadrach,…

You have to understand, I am not an Anglican. I was raised as a Pentecostal, so now that I am worshipping at a very charismatic, community-loving, Jesus-serving local Anglican church, I don’t always know the ropes. I have to observe, listen, and watch very closely. Because sometimes, you get asked to do something a cradle-Anglican…

Frantic… I often read blogs and articles about how important it is to take time out to be quiet, to replenish the batteries of life, and to have some “Me” time.  It sounds wonderful, and a goal to aim at. However… …the reality of my life over the last 6 months has made this really…

  I have wonderful conversations with my husband. He is the most generous man – actually happy to take turns in listening and speaking. We had been discussing today a TEDTalk – there are many really interesting TED talk videos online, but this one caught our imagination . It is about Paula Stone Williams, a…

I wonder just when Jesus realized that as he wriggled his infant fingers, that he had placed stars in the sky? By the age of 12, He knew exactly who He was. It was an unfathomable act of surrender, to confine Himself to the earthly limitations of a human body. Most concepts of godhood previous…

True empathy is not loud. It is not listening to someone else’s story, fidgeting and rushing to tell the other how such a situation affected you, too. True empathy is still. Is not anxious about tears, or the absence of tears. It just sits. It offers the most precious of gifts: Time and Self. Time…