If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know how much I love hearing from my newsletter subscribers*, when they have a ‘light through…
This past year has frequently felt like I’m speeding along a pair of parallel train tracks, with battles on one track and blessings on the other.I’ve been forced…
I love the idea of a fresh start, a clean slate, a blank page. I love looking back at my journals to spot the themes that are lying…
I love it when I stumble across a ‘light through the cracks’ story in the lives of my friends – and this one is no exception.It comes from…
It’s not every week that I make a grown man start to cry. Especially not a British one, who’s basically a ‘familiar stranger’. But it just so happens…
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…
My heart feels heavy at the moment: I am praying for two friends who were recently diagnosed with cancer, and a young toddler who has been battling a…
Nearly three decades ago, a Scottish anaesthetist is volunteering, with Mercy Ships, in the West African country of Sierra Leone. He specialises in obstetric anaesthetics – the provision…
We are living in uncertain times, unprecedented upheaval, uncharted territory. The Coronavirus pandemic needs no introduction – nor the COVID-19 disease that the virus produces. Our media and…
It’s thanks to a friend from work that I have stumbled upon this story, because my friend knows Jessie, the young woman at the heart of it. She…