Monthly Archive: November 2011

The Power of Words

The main reason I went to medical school to become a doctor was because I wanted to help people. When I played an online computer game before I realised how bad it was for...

We are Blessed!

It occurred to me today, not for the first time, that it can be really helpful for our contentment to think about how people live that are less well off. We have been moving...

Steps to Forgiveness

Forgiving can be very tough. Sometimes there are really big wrongs that are hard to forgive. Other times it is all the little aggravations which can be hard to forgive and build up to...

Responding to Trials with Worship

Worshipping is not the first thing we really think of when we are going through a difficult experience. But I was really struck when I was reading Job the other day, that he was...

The Balance of God’s Effort and Ours

Yesterday I was sitting on the couch doing some private prayer time with my lovely quilt lying over me. My mother hand-quilted it for me about 10 years ago. She had wanted to make me...

The Very Worried Sparrow

My daughter has been struggling with bad dreams and crying at bedtime because she’s scared of having more of them. So last week I read her a story that I got from the local library, and I...

On Being A Servant of God

On Being A Servant of God

I don’t get much time to read books nowadays, and I don’t often read books twice. But there are a few that do get read more than once… and this one I have read...

Forgetting What is Behind…

A while ago I had to cut something out of my life that wasn’t good for me, and every so often I look back and think about it, and wish for it, and try to...