I live in the big scary world. Here’s my ideal and my aspiration: WWJT = What Would Jesus Think? But here’s me at my worst: WTF? = Wrong Thoughts & Feelings…!! Yes, I admit it. On occasion, thoughts invade my mind that are contradictory to my commitments, values and deepest desires. But there’s also this: […]
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34). That’s Jesus talking. As for me, I’m often annoyed. And I’ve started to wonder if this may be just lack of forgiveness in disguise…Like a poison I’m storing up in the sky of my soul. See the photo I put up? […]
Here’s a poem about disagreement in the wake of the current referendum about the difficult and emotive issue of the UK leaving the European Union. We all need grace more than ever to come together and work for a better future, despite our different perspectives. Poem on Disagreement: Minding the Gap We thought we could […]
Every new leaf I see at the moment excites me. Especially those on the apple tree in our garden, because I thought we’d probably killed the tree with over-zealous pruning in Autumn. I was studying that tree every day last month, and it took what seemed an age to produce just one little bit of […]
When we first began sponsoring a child, I was pretty good at writing to her. A testament to my own imperfection in action is that thus far, I’ve maybe, on average, written a letter a year to Hilary*, our sponsored child in Uganda, even though it would have taken little effort and I knew it […]
To my understanding, it’s a bizarre occupation : “Milk-Making Machine”. How strange to be the source of sustenance and life to a baby. As everyone told me “Breast is Best” for baby, I happily anticipated the role of milk-maker. I understood that breast-milk is better than formulated milk which at best is a simulation of the […]
Storms come! Behaving with grace at these times is difficult…If only we could snap our fingers and instantly clean up the mess left behind! We all go through storms within our lives sometimes, right? Recently, I had the displeasure of sharing the storms within a dear lady’s life. Lord, I need grace for others so badly! Real […]
“Will I be rich and famous?” This is from the mouth of my 8 year old daughter when I asked her if she would pose for a photo for my blog post! “Why?.. Do you want to be rich and famous?” No hesitation: “Yes”. Her older sister asks her “What will you be famous for?”, but I […]
About 7 months ago, I gave up refined sugar. Seriously. Since then, I have carefully avoided anything with white, cane or brown sugar in it…* Yet this morning I bought chocolate: 2 medium-sized boxes of Roses chocolates and 3 assorted packets of “treat-sized” chocolates: Crunchie, Milky Way, Maltesers. To give away, you understand, what with the festive […]
I know when I receive something nice and someone tells me “You deserve it”, they mean it in a good way… But that doesn’t stop me from thinking about all the reasons I really don’t deserve it – whatever the reward is – because I know truths about me they don’t know. Or I know that I […]