When Illness Can Be a Blessing in Disguise
Not long ago I became ill with a horrible virus that included dizziness, nausea, vomiting, temperature, chills, weakness and loss of appetite. I was in bed quite a bit for about 3 or 4...
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Why I Think About Perceptions
I am often thinking about perceptions. By that I mean, what impression am I giving people? What example am I displaying? What am I implying by what I do and say? In the Oxford...
Some of My Favourite New Worship Songs
My 8 year old son often asks me, “What is your favourite song at the moment?” I used to have an answer very quickly. But recently I ran out of favourites as I had...
Trusting God When You Can Do Nothing More
When I was 18 years old I had to go and collect my A level results and found that I didn’t have the grades I needed to get into university. I didn’t know what...
When God Works In Mysterious Ways
I have moved my blog to this website. I haven’t completely finished linking everything up yet, but it’s taking me such a long time that I thought I’d better start posting over here! If...
Why I Like Schedules
Ever since I was an overwhelmed housewife early on in our marriage and a good friend from Campus Crusade for Christ showed me how to schedule, I have kept one going. In fact I...
A True Servant’s Heart
Do you ever see something that needs doing, and think, “That’s not my job, someone else can do that.”? Often in work we have to do this, to separate out our own jobs so...
Our Commanding Officer
When I was at university I joined the Officer Training Corps, with the intention of becoming an army doctor one day. Sometimes we went away for weekends and I was introduced to the wider...
Moving on After Failure
This is something we heard in yesterday’s sermon, called ‘Recovering from Setbacks.’ The Israelites tried to attack a city and failed because someone in their camp had hidden sin. But when they dealt with...
What Steals Your Joy?
As we were driving back from The Netherlands recently, we were listening to the pastor of our home church in America, Pastor Dave Rolph. He said something very interesting: “All Satan has to do...
