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Sunlight Though the Shadows
Seeking and Finding God’s Grace in both Sunlit Times and Times of Shadow
- Walking into 2026
- The Wonder in the Waiting
- Christmas Shopping
- Changing Clothes for Changing Seasons
- Clearing Away the Cobwebs
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…
The Wonder in the Waiting
As I write, I’ve just finished two weeks serving as a juror at a local county court. It came at a particularly difficult time of year for me, as I tend towards slight depression during the shortest days of the year. I’m also recovering from a nasty fall and have managed to pick up a…
Christmas Shopping
This week, the third week in November, is always special to me as it brings back wonderful memories. Memories of travelling to London with my mum over so many years for our annual Christmas shopping day, always on a Thursday, when many of the large stores were open later than usual. We’d travel to Oxford…
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…
Passing the Message On
I’m not very good at judging the size of crowds. If I go to an event and someone asks me afterwards how many people were there I always struggle to answer. If it’s a number I’ve been able to count on my fingers, then I’m fine but beyond that, I can’t tell if there were…
However Far We Travel …..
I’ve been reading recently about the NASA astronauts who returned to earth after an unexpectedly long stay on the International Space Station. What should have been a stay of one week turned into 286 days for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, due to technical problems. Although space, and science generally, aren’t things I’m interested in…
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