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The Shape of Me: Guest Post
Thanks so much to H for this brilliant guest post… I am so, so caught with my appearance…I know this is only a symptom of deeper problems. Yet I just want to pause and ask the question, why am I so...
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Listening over lists
The Bible’s open and my brain is shouting ‘do something else.’ It started as a whisper, but the longer I resist, the more urgent it becomes. ‘Emma’, it says. ‘Finish the washing-up. Answer email. Take...
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Writing for IVP
Yesterday IVP posted an article of mine. It begins… Not long ago, I was taking my daughter, Ruby for a walk. It was mid-afternoon and she was building a tower of pebbles on the beach. My phone (which...
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Green trainers and the gospel
My daughter loves wearing trainers, so I took her to buy some new ones. The sales assistant offered her three options in her size. Purple ones (with glitter), green ones (with a robot trim), and...
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Our Father’s Voice
I love my dad. He’s smart and kind and honest and — brilliant. ‘You take after me,’ he says. I smile; but I don’t believe it. I thought you knew me better than anyone, dad. Why don’t you see it?...
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Better than sleep…
We’ve recently adopted a little boy and are in the early stages of settling him in. The wee man is doing well, and we are so thankful to be at this point. We wouldn’t swap him for the world! We are...
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Treasures of darkness
Everything I’m reading at the moment seems to point to the necessity of Christian suffering. It’s not a message I’ve been seeking. In fact, I keep trying to post it back. I turn the pages of the...
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The Good Life
A good prayer is not ‘Dear God, thank you that I’m so good and everything is perfect’, (including my grammar). A good prayer can be inarticulate and halting; a torrent of tears and grief and anger; a...
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Don’t compare (and despair!)
Sometimes when my mum visits, she leaves me one of her holiday magazines. ‘Home and Hearth’. ‘Ladies and Lunching’. ‘Kitchens and Catteries’. Top tips for cutting back the ivy. 101 uses for bicarbonate...
View ArticleLiving in the Moment (Part 1)
“Take no thought for the morrow” said the Son of God. It’s an extraordinary saying, made more extraordinary by who said it. He’s the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end but here’s one of...
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