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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’ …
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 …
16th July 2021 God designed and created our bodies.God created all those funny shaped noses and big ears and wobbly bellies and weird shaped feet that smell a bit funny.God designed me to be four foot ten (and a half) maybe they designed you to be six foot seven.God probably likes that awful red flush …
24th March 2019 Power, it’s all about Power. In the beginning God gave us power. He gave us power over ‘the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, over livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ He gave us power so that we would …
15th April 2019 Isaiah 1:16-17 “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widows cause.” It’s not rocket science is it. Even Bill Esquire Prescott and Ted Theodore Logan …