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Friday 24th February, 2023 Love is humble. Have you ever seen the picture of the pale blue dot, or heard Carl Sagan’s speech about it?The picture is taken from the outer limits of our solar system, it shows the earth as a tiny dot in a sea of darkness and space dust. Sagan said “That’s …
18th February, 2021 If you’ve experienced abuse you know that it’s not limited to violence or to single incidents but follows a pattern of coercion and control. When I was with my abuser, I experienced abuse under all the following headings. When I worked with other women who had been abused these categories were familiar …
Monday 20th February, 2023 When the guy I was just starting a new relationship with threatened to break the legs of another guy who had been flirting with me it should have been a big red flag.Instead, I thought it was romantic. I fell in love, we got married and…. Well you know the rest. …
Friday 17th February, 2023 “Kindness. n. the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate” A few years ago, following the death of Caroline Flack the hashtag #bekind trended as people urged one another to treat others as you wish to be treated, because you never know the pain someone is hiding inside. ‘Do unto others’ …
Tuesday 14th February 2023 When I first found myself single after 13 years of marriage I hated Valentine’s Day. It felt like salt in the wounds, whilst all those loved up folks filled their social media pages with sickening mush I was left contemplating loneliness, solitude and whether I was loveable. But, the fuss around …
27th August 2017 To the single Christian; You’re not unloved. Make your world bigger. So you don’t have a husband. A fallible human being. Make your world bigger. So you don’t get to build your life around ‘the one’ Make your world bigger So you don’t get to love and be loved by one special …
Monday 13th February 2023 ‘The Queue’ is a British institution, we’re good at waiting, at being orderly, polite, biting our stiff upper lip and limiting our complaints to muttering under our breath. Well some of us are at any rate. I don’t think it’s a skill I’ve ever really mastered, though at least since the …
Remember the Love Is Cartoons? They depicted both the romantic “when he reads you poetry” and the ordinary “when you trust her to cut your hair” reminding us that whilst love can be romantic it’s so much more than that. When we talk about love today we tend to think of sentimentality, or of “falling …
Weds 8th February 2023 Increasingly professionals who work in health and social care are striving to make the way they work ‘trauma informed’ This is because psychologists believe that the impact of trauma and adversity can cause lifelong problems. Studies have identified adverse childhood experiences such as experiencing domestic abuse, losing a parent to death …
25th January 2022. John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.” (Luke 3:11)I wonder sometimes what the church would look like if it took the same attitude to money as it does to sex.Just before the pandemic the House …