Tag: God’s love

  • broken angel

    While I was on Sabbatical Leave in autumn 2012 I took a week’s retreat at the Society of Mary and Martha in Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor. It was a wonderfully refreshing and relaxing time. On my last day I went into their little shop and saw a small stone angel, praying. I felt…

  • God knows

    “I know your heart. I know what you hide in the dark recesses. I know the burdens you carry. And I love you. My grace is sufficient for you. I know your heart. I know your desire to serve, to bless, to follow and to lead. And I love you. My grace is sufficient for you.”…

  • Did I really do that?

    I don’t know what reminded me of this, but recently I remembered something from my childhood that made me shudder with embarrassment and shame. I can’t believe I did it. I can’t believe nobody stopped me. I can’t believe I didn’t suppress the memory more successfully and bury it so deep in my subconscious that…

  • a radical thought?

    I feel the need to follow up from yesterday’s bloggage. Having survived the suggestion that God is not in control without being denounced, defriended or debagged (couldn’t think of a third ‘de-‘ word) I feel a little courageous. So I want to suggest something even more radical and controversial. I am warming up to it…

  • Much wailing and gnashing of teeth?

    Yesterday we arrived back home after a lovely holiday in Lanzarote. Not too much sunburn and lots of relaxing. I highly recommend these holydays. This morning I woke up in my post-holyday bliss and happily tucked into some toast and a cup of coffee. Today I was due to have a tooth extracted under sedation.…