Tanya Marlow – on the Bible, suffering and the messy edges of life
Posted in illness, living with M.E., Spirituality and discipleship, Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2013
“I have thanked God for my situation, I have raged at Him, I have pleaded with Him, I have refused to speak to Him. There are times where I feel contentment, and other times where I feel an unbearable sadness. There are times where I know the closeness of His spirit, and other times [...]
Posted in Concrete words: childhood and maturity on Jan 21st, 2013
Joining with Amber on Mondays for concretewords, where we practice writing by communicating the abstract through concrete things – a Horse, a book, stairs – and today The Scales. These concrete words posts have led me on a journey through childhood and nostalgia and spiritual maturity – I write and that’s what comes out at [...]
Posted in Concrete words: childhood and maturity, Spirituality and discipleship on Oct 29th, 2012
I’m joining with Amber’s Concrete Words series, where she writes about writing and uses concrete words to show the abstract. She is such an excellent writer, this is a masterclass. Writers, do join with us! In the middle of the doctors’ waiting room, amongst the tired magazines and pale patients was an [...]
Posted in Spirituality and discipleship on Oct 19th, 2012
When was the last time you entered a different country? There are two ways of entering a country. The first way is the clear entry. I have been to America once, and the entry was a noisy airport, announcements, surprisingly personal questions from unsmiling uniformed figures, fingerprinting, forms, heavy luggage. I had arrived. [...]
Posted in God and suffering - Our Story on Sep 13th, 2012
Drumroll please… Next Tuesday, 18 September, I will begin a new guest-post series on my blog, God and Suffering: Our Story. I am so excited! I have asked some friends to be courageous in sharing their own stories of suffering, weakness, struggle. They will be telling the truth of what it [...]
A Biblical basis for expressing anger at God Last week I posed this question, ‘If anger is the correct emotional response to injustice, surely being angry at God is calling God unjust. Therefore, is it a sin to be angry with God?‘ I was really grateful for your answers, which were all thoughtful [...]
One morning, a few weeks ago, I started writing a blog post. I wrote it using my iPad, but decided to draft it in an email so it would be easier to edit. I spent an hour lovingly tapping out a thousand words. I edited, tweaked, smiled. I could feel my brain slowing down [...]
It was Saturday, the evening before Mothering Sunday and I was chatting to my husband as we ate dinner. We were discussing the Mothers’ Day tradition of handing out posies of flowers to all women at church. “I really don’t think it’s a good idea,” I explained. “I worry that the positives about giving [...]
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. [...]
