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It’s been just over a week I’ve been off work on annual leave, however, as usual when it’s almost time to go back to work, I wish I had another week off! I gave you some idea of what I’ve been up to during my time off in Friday’s blog post entitled Normal Service Is [...]

What a strange title for a blog post I hear you say, especially considering I have no children! Well I must confess that I have an obsession with looking at baby clothes! And I’m not alone in this, my Mum has the same problem! I don’t know whether it’s because we’ve not got any children [...]

If you’ve been following my Tweets in the last week, you’ll be aware that I’ve been on holiday from work since Thursday of last week. The main reason I took the time off was because last Thursday my Dad, who suffers from vascular dementia was going into a local care home for a week’s respite [...]

Following on from yesterday’s blog post entitled Ready For A Change where I challenged you to consider whether you were ready to change for God, I now want you to consider what you ask for when you pray… Are you praying for your will today or for God’s will in your life? ~ Joyce Meyer [...]

Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change. ~ Catherine Pulsifer We often ask God to help us be more Christ-like, but do we really mean it? We can pray and ask God to help us be more Christ-like, however if we don’t really mean what we’re saying or we don’t truly [...]

If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn’t be big enough for you to completely trust him. ~ Rick Warren Do you ever think you will never truly understand God? Do you ever wonder why God seems to let bad things happen to good people? If you answered “Yes” to [...]

It’s only human nature, but we I’m sure we all find ourselves comparing ourselves to others at some time or another. However there is no need to compare ourselves with anyone other than Jesus… Don’t live life comparing yourself to everyone else. God has created you to be you and you are free to be [...]

A beautiful song with a wonderful message… I pray you’ll be our eyes and watch us where we go. And help us to be wise in times when we don’t know Let this be our prayer when we lose our way Lead us to the place guide us with your grace To a place where we’ll be [...]

I don’t know whether it’s because of what I’ve been focusing on in my blog posts this last week, I found myself doing something on Tuesday that I’ve never done before, and it even surprised me when I did it! When I was out on Tuesday lunchtime for my daily walk, I came across a [...]

So in the last few days in my Poverty In The UK blog post series I’ve given you information about why there is poverty and I’ve given you some recent statistics of current poverty levels in the UK, but what now? First and foremost we must pray! That may seem a strange thing to start [...]