Another Collection of Weird Dreams

♡☆♡☆♡☆♡☆♡☆♡☆♡☆♡ I had a dream where I was getting ready to make a speech to my (imaginary) company about going global and in the dream I was wearing an amazing skirt suit in rainbow pastel colours. I'm sure there was more to it but that's the bit I remember. P. S. I think my ex-husband …

Fractured

I would be a long way away from this episode if I was going to blog the episodes chronologically in order. But I feel as though this is an important part of who I am and what I've been going through, and how I got to where I am. So I will dispense with order …

First Sunday of Advent

Psalms: Psalm 122 OT: Isaiah 2:1-5 Gospel: Matthew 24:36-44 Epistles: Romans 13:11-14 The Psalm for today was 122, "I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord." I was unable to go to church this Sunday because, in addition to my own health issues, I am now …

Practical Theology

I was thinking about my post on Isaiah 2 and the topic of sanctification. In fact, I couldn't get it out of my head. I do really enjoy studying the Bible, theology, and doctrine. I was raised on it really as my dad trained to be a pastor. He never actually practised though and stopped …

21st Century Christian

According to Cross Rhythms, the UK Christian music site in its history of magazines involved in raising the profile of Christian music, 21st Century Christian Magazine was "stunningly unfunny", "conservative and cozy", and its unwieldy name was "conceived by committee". Critics apparently called the magazine "The Christian Yuppie". But it's not how I remember it …

Out in the cold, dark night

So here we are, almost nine weeks after moving out of our rented house, from which we were being evicted, into the brand spanking new housing association property. Minus the mold and the awful landlord and letting agents, but also minus carpets and curtains, the gardens, the fabulous view and minus the dining room, the …

Twisty-turny Lifey-wifey

2015 is not shaping up to be all I hoped it would be so far. Firstly, I was not able to go ahead with the next OU module due to a funding error. The same funding error that Student Finance England promised me was sorted out in September. So now I have lost a whole …

Rounding Up the Year – 2014 – It’s been a weird one.

2014 has not been the greatest year, but it certainly hasn't been the worst year by a very long mile. We had only just moved into this house (in November 2013) with mixed feelings - not the home I had hoped for, we're still renting with no end in sight, but relieved to be out …

Open to Life

I had a dream last night that I was at a Christian large family conference somewhere (and as far as I know, there is no such thing). The room was filled with pregnant women, mothers with babes in arms and prams and pushchairs, and the speaker was talking about how the church needs to value …

Autumn Update

When all my activities finished at the end of term before the summer holidays, I was relieved because I knew I had been overdoing things. But what I hadn't realised was that when the adrenaline (or whatever) stopped, I would completely crash. I spend a lot of time determinedly denying that what I have is …