Post Godly Surgery #PostOp
Last weekend we went to David’s Tent – billed as ‘an adventure in worship’, it is basically 3000 or so Christians gathering in a field to worship for 72 hours. There is something very special about it,...
View ArticleHashtag Prayers for a Heartbroken World…
I don’t know about you, but when things happen of such vast incomprehensible magnitude that we are shocked to the core, my response is to pray. I pray because, to be honest, I don’t know what else to...
View ArticleReconciliation // 2 Corinthians 5:11-21
Preach // 29/11/15 // Reconciliation // Available to listen here or to watch above. 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is...
View ArticleLetters to my kids
I wrote this post back in the summer before I had surgery on my back. So if you are reading it now in December, don’t worry, I’m not about to have surgery again, I just needed to leave this for a while...
View ArticleVulnerability and Isolation // Pt 1
Another looking back post, there’s going to be a few I think. Another one that was written months back and yet needed time to settle and reflect on. These next two are really about how I found myself...
View ArticleVulnerability & Isolation // Pt 2
Now if you know me personally I want you to know that these are not self-pity posts (actually even if you don’t know me personally I want you to know that!). I still say that my time off with my back...
View ArticleVulnerability & Isolation // Part 3
In thinking on vulnerability and isolation I have asked my friend Bethan to write a guest post on her own experiences… Jules has kindly asked me to contribute to her blog, and to be honest I could...
View ArticleRetreat Reflection
There is definitely something about going on retreat and just stopping, that gives you space. Space to be with God of course, but space to process too, space to think. Space for the thoughts that have...
View ArticleA Movement of Love
You know what I think our society needs? A movement of love. Over the last year or so the thing I have felt God talking to me about the most is, all about loving each other, loving people. Our culture...
View ArticleInequality and Disillusionment
Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s circumstance, maybe it’s God, I don’t know, but I seem to be becoming more and more aware of the ever increasing gap between the rich and the poor in this country. Look,...
View ArticleChronic pain or lingering blessing?
So most of you know I had surgery on my back last summer. I had a prolapsed disk which was pretty big and really flippin’ painful. It meant 3 months off work, ongoing physio, giving up my beloved...
View ArticleMy Armour
So I made this a few weeks ago. I had a rough few weeks dealing with the reality of leaving our church as I think I’d been keeping a lid on it for a while and then it just got me when I was least...
View ArticleGuest Post on Joy //
This is the next instalment in a year of guest posts on Joy as part of my year of focussing on joy (my word for the year). This month we have an anonymous post but you can find out more at the...
View ArticleNaked Prayers // Book Review
I first came across Mara Measor last year when I was getting into prayer doodling. I loved the simplicity of her drawings, yet expressing something quite deep, so I was delighted to be asked to review...
View ArticleReflecting over boxes…
So, I’m just emerging from the cocoon of life that has been no wifi for over a week. I know, total #FirstWorldProblem but I think we’d all agree that life without the internet is actually quite...
View ArticleOne Year On // Post Op
It’s now just over one year since I suffered a ruptured disk in my back and had surgery to correct it. Recovery is ongoing. They told me it would be at least a year and they were right. It has been so...
View Article‘Still Emily’ book review
I’ve just read ‘Still Emily’ in one sitting, on holiday surrounded by people, and have had to stem the tears pricking my eyes on more than one occasion. Emily’s story touched my heart, not with tears...
View ArticlePreach / / Service of Remembrance / / 4th Dec 2016
Talk from our annual ‘Service of Remembrance’, for those who have lost loved ones, at TRINITY Southover, 4th Dec, based on Psalm 46:1-7 I expect many of you have read or seen the movie of ‘The Lion,...
View ArticleNOURISH // One Word for 2017
This time last year I began a journey seeking ‘joy’ as I chose that as my one word to focus on for the year ahead. It was a really helpful tool rather than choosing New Year’s Resolutions, to just let...
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