Though grief has changed it shape, it still remains. Things are calmer now. Years have passed… The memory of losing our first son, well into the second trimester of my pregnancy, continues to this day as guarded treasure stored deep within, in a place that contains no other memory as precious as this. It is […]
Incapable, unable, impossible, unfathomable… whatever word you choose, or whatever way you determine it, or try to measure it, it cannot be done. “And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though […]
Several years ago, I walked in off the street into what I thought was a little florist boutique. It was Valentine’s week, the week that is one of the busiest on a florist’s yearly calendar. I just wanted to volunteer and be amongst it all. Of course, they were very happy to have my help. […]
As I enter the eternal pursuit of Love, I am entering an ocean, and just like the mysteries of the oceans of the earth are unfathomable, discovering this Love too, surpasses knowledge. It is a love that is too great to understand fully (Ephesians 3:19, NIV). It is a love that cannot be entirely known. It cannot be described in […]
“I feel so alone all the time” …The words of emotional pain spoken by a girlfriend, broken, and desperately searching for love. Her family has failed her. The separation of her mother and father has left her confused and insecure and feeling abandoned. She has had many and messy failed boyfriend relationships. Having done well with […]
Remember the roll call at school? The small town that was our home, consisted of not much more than two public bars, a dairy, a butcher, a hairdresser, a garage, a caravan manufacturer, an athletics park, a small grocery store – and a primary school. I remember school with its strict routines of the day […]
Think of it as a lesson in vocabularly – Have you ever watched the children’s movie, Inkheart? It’s the story where the words read come to life, and the one’s reading the words enter into the story of words and become part of the tale. Words are our form of explaining and describing the things […]
How does one deal with the events of 15.3.19? If I were atheist, I could just blame the evil of man. And it would be as simple as that. But I am Christian – one who believes in both the Sovereignty and Perfect Love of God. Sovereignty and Love struggle to mesh in my head […]
I sat with a girlfriend as she recalled her story. It was story filled with sadness, a life that had known much abuse and pain. All I could hear throughout was a deep sense of aloneness. A family that fell apart, foster homes one after the other, failed relationships, a job that used her and […]
Imagine the public humiliation, the heaviness of condemnation, the surprise of love, the potential of forgiveness. Read well her story – John 8:1-11 “Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives…A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been […]