Year: 2015

Grace in Action

One of the greatest moments of grace in my life came to me when my baby son was in hospital for another heart surgery.  His life had been touch and go with his particular problem and we were back again praying this next surgery would buy him some time till he got bigger and stronger for…

Managing Our Circumstances

People under severe physical or emotional stress or with poor social support are more vulnerable to injury, mental imbalance and physical disorders. Caring for those of us who have more to deal with is part of a healthy community. However, many people would agree that true community is difficult to find these days. So what…

Land Mines and Daffodils

I was not quite seven years old, when we moved, my mum, dad and baby brother Grant from Hayes – then on the edges of London, now swallowed up by Greater London itself – down to a little seaside town in Sussex, on the South Coast of England. Littlehampton, the town, was a great change…

Embracing the Crone

Look around you. Go on, have a good look. Perhaps you will observe a new phenomenon that has reared its head – literally. Some of us, of both genders, are embracing our silver hair. That men have done this is nothing new, terms like “silver fox,” “sophisticated,” and “refined,” have been liberally applied to silver…