Pray, Wait, Trust

I don’t know about you, but I’m still pondering on many things that Rebecca and Sue McP shared over the past six weeks in their Faith and Mental Health and Holy Habits series. And I’ve found that those difficult Covey questions Sue quoted keep coming back to me:...

He Giveth More Grace

Not my words, this week, but the encouraging words of poet Annie Johnson Flint, words which later became a hymn. Listen beyond the older language to hear the truth of 2 Corinthians 12:9a (NLT), where the Lord said to Paul, ‘My grace is all you need. My power works...

Numb?

My prep for Christmas is so-so this year. I’ve got gifts lined up and have thought about our meal, but work is crazy busy, I’m already planning meetings in 2023, and I have a Christmas pudding mixture sitting in the frig unstirred. Yup. Unstirred. In England, the...

Providential Relationships

Last Sunday my throat was in the final throes of recovering from laryngitis, so I was in church, with a mask on, and not able to sing out loud (but, hey, I sang out loud in my head!) Because I was quiet, I clearly heard better the many reminders during the service of...

Growing Strong with Support

I’m fascinated by one of my potted succulents. It was growing strong, reaching up to the light. Then the growth spurt must have gotten a bit too much. At first it collapsed under its own success but, over the next day or so, two outside leaves drew in close to the...