I have been struggling for the last few days with discouragement. Some days it’s as if I’m being pulled under water with barely enough energy to fight to keep my head up. I have so many friends who are facing incredibly difficult circumstances. When I walk my dogs, Belle and Tink in our neighborhood last [...]

Some years ago one of my dearest friends and my spiritual mentor, Ney Bailey, asked me a question, “Imagine that a movie was made of your life. Nothing was left out. Everything that you have ever thought or said or done was displayed on the big screen for anyone to see. How would you feel?” [...]

I don’t know what your church background is or even if you have one…so some of what I write here might make sense or not. Apologies up front for any “language of the kingdom” stuff! My background is Scottish Baptist. I was raised in a small church where my family have been members for several [...]

“You’re welcome!” I love those words. We usually hear them when we have stopped to say, thank you! I love to hear them from my son when he’s cleaned up the man-cave he calls his bedroom without prompting. I love to hear them from a trusted friend who had allowed me to pour my heart [...]

One of the greatest gifts that I have been given in life is to be able to share my own story, how God even in the darkest moments, took my hand and walked with me. There is a powerful redemptive element in speaking out where you have been and where you are now. I will [...]

This One Principle Is Changing My Life “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 Just ask any songwriter who has tried to come up with a unique way to say, “I love you,” or a mystery writer wanting to [...]

Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday but as I thought about mothers struggling to will their children to live in the harshest places in Haiti or the families in New Zealand who will face their first Christmas soon without 29 miners lost in the Pike River mine disaster, my question was,

“What can each one of us be thankful for?”

Use your INSIDE VOICE!! I am a self-confessed gadget geek and fan of all things Apple, in fact I am writing this blog on a flight to Denver on my iPad and nifty little dock-able keyboard. I love my iPhone 4 with Facetalk. I love that when I finally get to my hotel tonight I [...]

BULLY I stood in the Headmaster’s office with my knees shaking. I knew that I was in more trouble than I had ever been in my life. I was twelve years old and I had just punched a girl so hard on the nose that I broke it and gave her two black eyes. I [...]

RESTLESS I have lived with this word for as long as I can remember. It felt as if I was waiting for something, not sure what, just….something. If I was in a relationship that was difficult then I blamed that person and assumed that when I was away from them the restlessness would go but [...]