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Apparently today, the first official day of spring, is also International Day of Happiness. It can be difficult to imagine happiness when you are in the throes of domestic abuse, or when you are first recovering from it. I remember thinking I was happy when I was in an abusive relationship, at least some of …
Longtime readers will by now know that I have a self-acknowledged “rebellious streak”I don’t think it’s a bad thing, as Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said: “Well behaved women seldom make history.” This International Women’s Day I’ve been thinking about all the disobedient and rebellious women who challenged unjust male authority in the bible: …
Have you ever felt like you’re not good enough? Not good enough to do your job?Not good enough for your friends? Not good enough for your partner?Not good enough for your church? Not a good enough Christian?Not good enough for God? Well I’m here to tell you that’s not how God sees you. There are …
Monday 5th February, 2024 I stashed myself in a box for safekeeping.University is scary, leaving home at 18, meeting strange new people from different walks of life who want to know who you are.And what if they don’t like what they find?It’s a vulnerable place to be, deciding what you show people of yourself, especially …
Thursday 11th January, 2024 If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you. …
Monday 1st January, 2024 Happy New Year! No matter how much we try to avoid it, life is messy.Messy and… well….mingin’!Humanity isn’t clean and neat and tidy, we burp, and fart, and poop and bleed. In fact most of our bodily functions are sticky and gooey and often a bit stinky too. We’re gross! And …
Thursday 14th December 2023 A comment made on a post on my facebook page recently suggested that religion is bad news for women.And it may shock some of you to know that I largely agree.Religion is so often used to put down, subjugate and control women. That’s what religion has always done, control people.“Why are …
Those of us of a certain age, before the days of games consoles, traffic and modern parental worry, will remember long hot summers where we were booted out the front door after breakfast and didn’t return home until the street lights came on. Those glorious days of childhood, full of knock-a-door run and making prank …
“Truth hurts” a phrase often used to justify unkind words and a lack of care around other people’s feelings. Those of us of a religious bent may even try to spiritualise this notion of “only being honest” as “speaking the truth in love” But let’s face it, as our home secretary has shown us recently, …
22nd August, 2022 It’s not supposed to be difficult.Life, love, faith.None of it is supposed to be difficult.The songs tell us that “love hurts” , that it’s sometimes hard, that we must work at it.I disagree. In fact, it was the big lesson I learned in my first relationship after my abusive husband; that loving …