Cancer Taught Me How to Pray Scripture
I always wanted to pray scripture but I struggled, big time. It was like I had a love-hate relationship with even the thought of praying scripture. It sounded like such a good idea but with the memory of a sieve and I could never remember a verse, let alone land on...
How to Pray When You Have No Words
I often don't know how to pray. I simply have no words. No words to articulate what's on my heart. No words because I'm so tired and I'm all out of thoughts. No words because I'm simply not sure where to start. Or, more often than not, I have no words because I'm...
Trusting God Through Cancer
Trusting God through cancer wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be. It's funny, when I was a kid I was convinced that if I pulled a silly face and stood into the wind my face would stay like that, forever. I know, bless my little cotton socks! The trouble is,...
How to lament without complaining
God got annoyed with his people for constantly grumbling and complaining in the desert and there are numerous verses in the New Testament warning us not to complain, grumble or become Moaning Minnies. Just check out Phil 2:14, James 5:9 and I Peter 4:9 for starters....
Stop Waiting for Life to Get Better
If my family’s run in with cancer and the stories you all have told me, have showed me anything, it’s that suffering of any kind sucks! I remember where I was when I got the call that mum had been diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer, then again when my sister Jo got...
You’re not worthless. You’re wonderful.
“Mum, don’t make that face.” “What face?” I asked, turning to see the back of my reflection and check out whether the jeans I was trying on made my bum look big. “That face, where you screw your nose in disgust. You do it whenever you try anything on.” Wow. Had I...
How Your Brain’s Eroding Your Trust in God and How to Fix It
If you're anything like me you know you should trust God, you desperately need to trust God, and more than anything you want to trust Him, but when the rubber hits the road and you get the call from the doctor, discover your teen is cutting, or your brain's spinning...
How to Find Peace in the Pandemic
Pandemic isn't a word that brings peace to our souls. There’s so much we don’t know; so much has been put on hold, postponed, and cancelled, possibly never to return. Bogus advice mingles with crucial information and it’s easy to get lost in a maze of media coverage....
Write a Christmas To-Don’t List
My mother was a list maker and I've inherited her penchant for check lists and notepads along with her hazel eyes and prominent Roman nose. I make shopping lists, to-do lists, people I need to call lists, and yes, even lists of the lists I have to make. I've got it...
10 Things I Learned this Autumn
I've decided to join Emily P Freeman in a time of looking back with intention and discovering what I've learned over the last three months. As Emily says, it's a time "where we pause to reflect on the past season before we move ahead into the future. “It’s not the...
