Finding a rhythm that works
Our children are back to school now and life is settling back into the recognisable term-time pattern. For me, the start of this particular term of each year is a time in which I take stock and look at...
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St Augustine wrote, “[God] you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” “Our hearts are restless”: that’s a great description of life today. So often I feel...
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There’s a crack in my fishbowl
I am delighted to welcome Gerard Kelly to my website as a guest blogger. A prolific poet/writer, he has just released his first novel, The Boy Who Loved Rain, a beautifully emotive book tackling huge...
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Are you willing to let God disrupt your life?
We are now in Advent, traditionally a time of looking forward and preparing for the coming of Christ through acts of remembrance and repentance as we get ourselves ready spiritually. The word advent...
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Learning to be thankful – at all times
The new term is well under way and already I feel like I’ve been struggling to catch up. I had the most wonderful Christmas, but since then both my husband and I have been dogged with illness. New Year...
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Let’s celebrate – and fight for – marriage
As we are in the middle of Marriage Week in the UK, and Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, I spent time reflecting on what marriage means to me in my latest column for Christian Today. To read the...
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Why scrubbing loos is a good idea
What is it about the human condition that makes us look around the people we come into contact with day to day and compare ourselves to them? It is something we have to work really hard not to do,...
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What one thing has God asked you to do today?
If you don’t know the answer to that question then perhaps, like me, you are a little too goal-orientated and focused on achieving rather than slowing down long enough to hear from God. Often our...
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How to be better at encouragement
I’m terrible at encouragement. Particularly at encouraging my husband. There, I’ve said it. It’s a hard one to admit; particularly when it was the first thing I spoke on when I took over the women’s...
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The value of wisdom from elders
Each one of us hopefully learns a great deal through our lifetime, but what do we do with that knowledge? Does it go with us to our graves, or do we learn to share it with others graciously, and...
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