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Wednesday 1st October 2014 “If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast” (Psalm 139: 9-10) My faith has not got me through my difficult time with domestic abuse. My faith …
When there’s two adults in the home it should make parenting easier, not more difficult: 17th September 2014 “You’ve got your hands full” calls the old guy peering over the hedge he’s clipping. He doesn’t realise that the lady over the road carrying her shopping in said the same thing two minutes earlier and the …
8th August 2014This is still my dream for my golden years, though now it’s in a campervan, not a boat and involves a trailer full of LEGOWhat’s your dream? 8th August 2014 When I am old, well not old; that age where your children have flown the nest but you’re not yet an old lady. …
2nd May 2014One little Piggy When I was about seven my mum and dad took me into our local branch of Natwest to open a children’s savings account. Anyone over a certain age will remember that as you saved up with Natwest you were rewarded with piggy banks until you had a whole family. Well …
Psalm 56 was crucial to me during my recovery and now it is a part of one of the sessions in the Always Hopeful Recovery programme Tuesday, 1 April 2014 Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;all day long an attacker oppresses me;my enemies trample on me all day long,for many …
Tuesday, 25 March 2014A year on from escaping abuse I was rediscovering what peace meant.Eight years later I still have the Christmas decorations I put up later that year on my wall, one says Peace, the other says Joy. They remind me never to take those things that I now enjoy for granted. Here’s the …
In March 2014 Always Hopeful was born. It started out as a blog. I hoped that telling my story would help others to escape and rebuild their lives free of abuse. In truth, it probably helped me more than it helped others. I was still raw, so early into my recovery: It had only been …