When I was a little girl I had a habit of looking backwards while walking. On more than one occasion I collided with a lamp post, and once the metal bar holding up the climbing frame in the school playground. I can remember teachers and my mother telling me to look forward, face the front…
It could be quite easy right now, given the news reports and isolation that we are experiencing, for many us to lose hope. To lose hope in the future, in each other, in the government, in God himself. A loss of hope turns us towards fear, blame, anger and despair. None of these things are…
I was sitting at the computer getting really fed up with its latest trick of switching itself off if I so much as blink. It was causing stress, as it often does. I’m not really a lover of technology although I use it a lot and it certainly causes me more stress than pen and…
Well, it’s been one of those days when I shouldn’t have gotten out of bed. Do you have those days, when everything is going wrong and it feels like it would be safer to do nothing? Although of course it wouldn’t, so there’s a quandary! Anyway, in the midst of that, 2 things have helped…
I feel like I should be there by now. There in the place that is the new normal, there in the lifestyle that this world demands right now, there contentedly in the solitude and freedom of my home and workplace, there where God is leading us to. But, you know something, I’m not! I’m still…
Since lockdown I have become a member of the Self-Isolating Bird Club. No, it isn’t dull and boring but an opportunity to share knowledge and sightings across, not only this country but worldwide. A question was posed one day last week which I found really interesting.“How do birds know which branches are strong enough to…
My journey to work used to take me through the village of Charlesworth, a small village on the edge of Derbyshire. As I turned right off the main road and descended the hill, which was a short cut to the motorway, I passed a pair of bungalows. One neat and tidy and the other having…
I have started reading Soulful Nature. A spiritual field guide by Brian Draper and Howard Green. Yesterday I began to think that I had chosen the wrong time to start this book as at the end of each chapter are things to do such as visiting a favourite place, which of course we can’t do…
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby said “Disconnection destroys us. It leads to panic buying, to growing fear and to spiritual, emotional and physical isolation” It’s not normal for people to live in isolation. In times of crisis our instinct is to join together to be with other people. I felt this just this week…
Our words today com from Canon Ellen Loudon, the Director of Social Justice for the Diocese. This is addressed to all who have been contributing to the work of our churches in making a bigger difference in our communities at this time. Ellen writes: Thank you for the difference you are making. ‘I thank my…