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Sunlight Though the Shadows
Seeking and Finding God’s Grace in both Sunlit Times and Times of Shadow
- Finding Hope in Wilderness: A Reflection for Holy Week
- The Right Way Out
- Walking into 2026
- The Wonder in the Waiting
- Christmas Shopping
Finding Hope in Wilderness: A Reflection for Holy Week
Following the death recently of a close friend, Gerry, I’ve been reminiscing with my husband about the several holidays we spent with Gerry, his wife and brother, including one on the west coast of Scotland. During that trip we visited an area called the Fairy Lochs which lie surrounded by rocky hills, near the town…
The Right Way Out
Recently I’ve tackled a spring clean of the spare bedroom, which is very badly named as the one thing this very small room doesn’t have is any ‘spare’ room, being much smaller than the one in the image below! Used occasionally, as space for an overnight guest, its main function is storing out of season…
Walking into 2026
I’m writing this post on New Year’s Eve and I’ve been thinking (as I’m sure many of us have) about stepping away from 2025 and walking into 2026. Having fallen recently, walking doesn’t seem like one of my particular skills, unfortunately, and I’m quite nervous about falling again. Over the past few weeks I’ve been…
Clearing Away the Cobwebs
We’re just at the start of September, my favourite month, not only for the first sights and scents of autumn but also for the sense of a new beginning, a second ‘new year’ in the calendar. As children and young people start returning to schools, colleges and universities I look to the next few months…
Filling Our Bowls
On most of the surfaces in the room where I write these blog posts, I have china dishes of all shapes and sizes, many inherited from my mother. Two of these in particular always catch my eye. The first is this small round dish with a picture of roses painted inside. I’ve had this dish…
Taking a Dip
We’ve recently returned from a holiday in Sorrento on the Amalfi coast of Italy. Though we enjoyed ourselves, the weather was rather hotter than we’d hoped: I always struggle with temperatures above 23⁰, particularly if the humidity is high too. The day I started drafting this blog post saw the highest recorded temperature for the…
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