Tanya Marlow – on the Bible, suffering and the messy edges of life
Posted in Ministry and Calling, Spirituality and discipleship on May 21st, 2013
What we think of as our greatest achievements, may, in the light of eternity, be nothing; what we think of as our weakness may, in the light of eternity, be our greatest achievement. I’m delighted to be over at Bible Reflections today, writing why living our ‘Plan B’ may not be such a bad thing, [...]
Posted in Culture and Society, living with M.E. on Apr 14th, 2013
I have seen a number of news items recently, including periodicals which should know better, saying something like this: “Disability Living Allowance, the benefit that helps with the extra costs of being disabled, is being replaced by PIP. PIP will have regular face-to-face assessments, rather than DLA which was based on self-assessment questionnaires.” [...]
Posted in Recommendations and Reviews on Feb 2nd, 2013
I keep meaning to do a weekly Bits’n’Blogs post, and never getting round to it. And then I saw that the wonderful Leigh Kramer does a monthly ‘what I’m into’ post, and I thought that was a fab idea! So I’m linking up with her, and do take a while to look round her blog- [...]
Posted in God and suffering - Our Story on Nov 13th, 2012
Alice Buckley is the kind of person who makes my heart smile every time I see something she writes, whether on Twitter or on her blog. She writes imaginatively about how to teach the Bible to young children, and I love learning from her. Over to Alice: Two kinds of suffering When [...]
Posted in Bible, living with M.E. on Sep 11th, 2012
“…And then a light clicked on for me. I thought of the chains of my disability. I thought of Paul, imprisoned in his house, unable to preach the gospel openly. I thought of his goal to go to the far nations, to preach where the gospel had not gone before. I thought of his love [...]
Posted in Five minute Friday, illness, Life, living with M.E. on May 4th, 2012
This is my ‘Five minute Friday’, inspired by the Gypsy Mama. The idea is that you write for five minutes flat on a topic, without worrying about whether it’s right or not. It’s kinda fun! Check out others’ interesting 5-minute posts on the topic here. This is my best five minutes (okay – I [...]
