I was chatting with someone the other day and they were talking about some of the awful things that happened in their past and wishing that people would stop talking about it because they just wished they could leave it behind them and start the...
I really struggled back in high school whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was pretty good at most things – except sports, because my knees had been stuffed up by years of ballet, but being good in lots of areas left...
Our society has three main groups – I wonder which one you belong to? The first group is the poor, these are people who don’t have much money – so their focus is on getting more of it. Now money, in itself is just a tool...
One of our favorite things to do together as a family on the weekend is to get out and about and explore somewhere new – and one of the best places we’ve found during our adventures is a sculpture park about half an hour away from home...
Want to know the secret to happiness? God seems to keep bringing young people across my path who are struggling with mental health issues and self-harm – and what’s frightening is these young people seem to be getting younger and younger...
Have you ever tried to do something new where the consequences of things going wrong would hurt? One of my friends posted a video on Facebook this morning of her daughter jumping off the 10m diving platform for the very first time and she added the...
If you haven’t been feeling the love of God lately, or you suspect you might be unlovable – you really need to hear this message. Over the last few years I’ve spoken with a lot of women who have recently separated from their...
Engineers love using things called gantt charts to set out the different steps and stages involved, and to show which steps are dependent on the completion of other steps, and to arrange things in a way that is most efficient in terms of labor...
I’ve heard plenty of examples, over the years, of Christian people whose kind nature and desire to help others has led to them being taken advantage of by other people. There are stories of people offering a short term place to stay to someone...
In Luke chapter 14, Jesus told a story about a man who prepared a great feast. Now this man sent out a heap of invitations, which we assume were accepted, but when the banquet was ready and the man sent a servant to fetch the guests, the invited...