I’m sitting on the edge of my hotel bed in Nepal, with the room curtains flung wide open. It’s a huge window and outside in the clear, night sky, a thousand stars are twinkling away over the top of the Himalayas, the crickets are chirruping madly and I’m perched here, thinking about my fantastic week. […]
Category Archives: Christianity
When God doesn’t answer prayer…
Yesterday, we were at the National Day of Prayer in Wembley. I never really know what to expect of big, corporate expressions of faith like these. While on my travels to other countries, I’ve been to a few which have been haphazardly-organised and I’ve also been to some lovely ones, where it felt like God turned up and […]
A jolly good funeral…
Today, we went to a double funeral. Uncle Jim and Aunty Gladys were the last of my ‘church’ aunts and uncles who’d known me since I was a baby. They were married for 71 years and did everything together. They met at a Christmas Day party in 1936 and Gladys turned up in a gorgeous […]
I did a silly thing…
I did something a bit silly today! Even as I was about to do it, there was a bit of a tug in my head; ‘Don’t do it…you’ll just regret it….‘ But hey, I know better, right? So I did it anyway! For the record, it wasn’t anything illegal or immoral, just a stupid thing […]
4.30 wake-up call
I was awake at 4.30am today (cheers jet-lag!) and as I was also (oddly!) full of energy, I grabbed a coffee and plonked self in front of the big window, to watch the sun come up at 6.20. The most beautiful sunrise I ever saw, was in Uganda about 8 years ago. We were there […]
Don’t judge a book by its cover…
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover….you shouldn’t look at a person and make an assumption about their life. Well, sometimes, I do. And today I was badly tripped up by my own nasty preconceptions. I’m at a big music conference in the US; great speakers, inspiring music and lots and lots […]
Prayer….a weird and wonderful thing
A weird and wonderful sort of thing happened to me this week. I’m on holiday and I’m staying with some friends in a top secret, undisclosed location (sorry, hardly a State secret, I just always wanted to say that!!) But, I’m loving the sun, the crickets chirping away, the relaxation and the mound of brilliant […]
Go on…surprise me…
I like surprises. I always have done. They don’t have to be extravagant, budget-stretching surprises, but sometimes just an email to say, ‘thinking of you’ or a card in the post, can make the difference between a good day and a not-so-good day. Last week, I was feeling a bit rough and woke up one morning […]
I’m running away….
I first discovered running about 8 years ago. A friend told me that at first, I’d feel like a tractor was reversing over me; chest, legs, bum…everything would beg for mercy….but if I kept going just a teeny bit more, apparently, if I didn’t drop dead at that point, it then got pretty flipping good. […]
How to have an adventure….
At church recently, we sang the song which begins with the line, ‘There must be more than this….’. I looked around at the group of worshippers, not entirely sure that any of us were really absorbing the words….but later it made me think. What do we really mean, when we sing, ‘There must be more […]
