Tanya Marlow – on the Bible, suffering and the messy edges of life
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on May 4th, 2013
I’m here, but I’m not really here. I’m just popping in, and loading up my Twitter app with scheduled tweets, to tell you about the best of the blogs for April. Tomorrow I’ll post my ‘what I’m into’ for April. and then you’ll have a whole lot of great things to read while I abstain [...]
Posted in God and suffering - Our Story on Jan 29th, 2013
Something a little different for today’s God and Suffering story: a friend from church sent me a ‘stream of consciousness’ post, very journal-like, written in a time of depression a few months ago. He described it as both a prayer and: “articulate crying, with the same therapeutic value as actually weeping.” It is so [...]
Posted in God and suffering - Our Story on Nov 20th, 2012
Addie Zierman is one of my favourite writers. She has an uncanny way of getting under the skin of things, of truth-telling so effortlessly and beautifully. I have lost count of the times when I have gone to her blog and found the very thing I was pondering, expressed with more dignity and beauty than [...]
Posted in God and suffering - Our Story on Sep 25th, 2012
I have been privileged to have known Kath for more than a decade. She is not the shouty sort, you have to listen in close. But it is worth it, every whispered word is worth it. Over to Kath: As I sit here wondering how to participate well in this excellent series on God [...]
“A place of tears” Photo credit: Olga Oslina How do you pray when the joy has gone and your present experience is a place of tears? How do you process it when all the good things in your life are in the past, and your present is just hard work and sorrow? [...]
Posted in illness, literature, living with M.E. on Feb 16th, 2012
The best book I’ve read this year is “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemirovsky, about the French occupation during the Second World War. She was writing in 1942, living in wartime France. It was unfinished, because she was taken to Auschwitz before she had a chance to complete it. Her notebooks have only recently been discovered. [...]
