Your children! There are plenty of people who would love to have children but for one reason or another are unable to. There are loads of people who have children but because of family circumstances they never see or have contact with their children. There are those who have sadly lost their children…I’m sure they think of their children [...]
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Don’t Take Them For Granted #2
Posted: May 30, 2012 in family, love, music, life, Health, friendship, children, babyTags: Third Day, home, child, children, Health, parent, abuse, hurt, child abuse, Children Youth and Family, Philanthropy, Child poverty, UNICEF, Advocacy Groups, Child support, Child Welfare
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Are They Blessings In Disguise? #2
Posted: May 22, 2012 in blogging, family, friendship, Health, life, love, music, religionTags: blessing, Disguise, friendship, God, God the Father, Healing, Laura Story, Moses, relationship
Yesterday in Are They Blessings In Disguise #1 I talked about how the situations and circumstances we find ourselves in can be blessings, even if we don’t realise it at the time! But how about people? During our lifetime we meet and encounter thousands of people, some for only a few seconds, others for years, [...]
And So It’s Back To Work Tomorrow
Posted: May 20, 2012 in arthritis, blogging, dementia, depression, family, friendship, Health, heart, holiday, life, love, music, religion, workTags: Annual leave, arthritis, casting crowns, employment, family, Friday, God, home, Nursing home, Parenting, Praise You In This Storm, Respite care, sunday
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 [...]
Baby Clothes!
Posted: May 19, 2012 in baby, children, clothing, friendship, life, love, ShoppingTags: baby, Baby shower, Business and Economy, children, Clothing, Infant, Pampers, shopping
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 [...]
Normal Service Is Resumed
Posted: May 18, 2012 in dementia, family, Food, friendship, Health, holiday, life, love, pray, prayer, religion, Rutherglen, ShoppingTags: Alzheimer's disease, Caregiver, Dementia, family, Home care, Mum, Nursing home, Parenting, patience, Respite care, vascular dementia
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 [...]
Poverty In The UK #4
Posted: May 11, 2012 in pray, family, love, music, life, religion, Health, friendship, work, blogging, prayer, politics, children, homeless, news, Food, poverty, UKTags: God, matt redman, poverty, United States, David Cameron, Poverty in the United Kingdom, Fuel poverty, Facts and Statistics, United State, Labour, Frank Field, Tony Blair
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 [...]
Poverty In The UK #2
Posted: May 9, 2012 in blogging, children, family, Food, Health, homeless, life, news, politics, poverty, UK, workTags: Debt, Financial services, poverty, recession, Tax credit, unemployment
Yesterday in the first part of my Poverty In The UK series of blog posts, I gave you the shocking news that there are millions of people living in the UK, as supposedly large economy, who are living in poverty. Today I want to have a look at some of the factors that cause poverty… [...]
Poverty In The UK #1
Posted: May 8, 2012 in children, family, Food, Health, life, news, politics, poverty, UKTags: David Cameron, Development, Facts and Statistics, Fuel poverty, Organisations, poverty, Poverty in the United Kingdom, Standard of living
The UK is the world’s six largest economy, yet 1 in 5 of the UK population live below our official poverty line, meaning that they experience life as a daily struggle. So what exactly is poverty? Most agree that poverty must be understood in relation to typical living standards in society: Individuals, families and groups in [...]
Missionaries At Home
Posted: May 7, 2012 in children, Food, friendship, Health, homeless, life, love, music, politics, religionTags: Christian, Ensign, God, Homelessness, Jesus, Lord, mission, Missionary, Newsboys
What do you think of when you hear the word missionary? Foreign lands? Travelling thousands of miles from home? Poverty? Homelessness? Starvation? Illness? Let me challenge you by saying, given the amount of poverty, homelessness and hunger in some of our cities and towns, is it not about time we did more missionary work on our [...]
