What three adjectives would you use to describe you? The question was part of a bigger article by Jeff Goins, designed to help you find your ‘writing voice’. (Jeff has an outrageously helpful blog on how to write blogs. It’s so instructive it actually feels like cheating. Every blogger should check it out.) I asked […]
Suffering in silence
19th January, 2012 15
I love it when you are reading the Bible and you have an ‘aha’ moment, when you feel like you have happened upon a diamond in the dust that no-one else has as yet uncovered. I recently had such a moment, reading about Hagar in Genesis 16. So here’s the story. Hagar, servant girl, of […]
God is not sensible
13th January, 2012 2
A few weeks before Christmas, I got the following text message from my husband: “Council rubbish truck reversed into our car in the car park. Am contacting insurance company.” Fortunately, the mental image that I had conjured up at that point bore no resemblance to the actual damage, which was some scratches on the boot and […]
Writing with my left hand
6th January, 2012 31
Do you know what your calling is? It is notoriously difficult to discern one’s calling, which is to say, ‘how do I know what God wants me to do with my life? There’s the kind of calling which is “Calling-with-a-Capital C’. This ‘Capital-C-Calling’ is the kind that happened in the Old Testament, the kind that […]
