It’s not every day that you find yourself praying for a complete stranger and his wife – and especially not over the phone – but this is what…
At the end of each month this year, I am writing a ‘thought for the month’. This one is October’s. You will find the others here.***The late Helen Keller…
In today’s blog post, I’m delighted to be introducing you to a friend who recently got in touch to tell me about an unexpected lightthroughthecracks encounter that she…
At the start of this year, I shared a moving light through the cracks ‘behind the news’ story from the BBC, which I had accidentally stumbled upon.It was set…
This story follows on from a story I recently shared on here – ‘Focusing on what matters most’ – which you will need to read first, if you…
I seem to have hit the age where I have to hold a book an elbow’s length away, in order for it to come into focus. Things that…
The news, this week, has been dominated by headlines about the passing of HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. There has been applause for the things he…
One of the things I’ve missed most, during the last year, when we’ve been living in on-and-off lockdown, has been swimming. (You can read a tale that’s set…
Working as I do, in international development, in a global role, it means I’ve visited many nations on my work travels. About 12 years ago, one of those…
It is autumn in the UK, and the leaves are turning beautiful shades of golden brown, burnt orange and deep red. The schools have returned for another academic…