Gloomy Introduction (by Rachel) It is baked beans on toast week in our house. The Christmas goodies have been eaten; the groceries are running low. The expenses and excesses of Christmas take their toll around about now. Back in 2005, the austerity measures we impose upon ourselves and our families, along with the weather, the […]
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WEEK TWO: CHRISTMAS AND FAMILY Inspiration: Christmas in our house looks like this… Traditions are important as they create rituals that help give a certain familial identity. They forge valuable history that keeps families rooted and let’s be honest, however small or silly these traditions are, they are the best part of the Christmas experience. If my
People have a way of shaping and forming us. Some make us feel good, some make us feel awkward, whilst others leave us downright depressed. Some inspire us to greater heights while others discourage us from ever trying again. People ought not to hold such power over our lives, but when it comes
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Psychiatrist Dr Irvin D. Yalom conducted a simple exercise in which he gathered a room full of total strangers, randomly paired them off, and had each partner asked the other, repeatedly, the same simple one line question; “what do you want?” “Could anything be simpler?” Concluded Yalom following the exercise. He wrote; “one innocent question
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This week I found myself stood at the back of an old chapel in Liverpool being reminded of just how much our goodbye’s cut against the grain of all that God originally intended for us. Having just conducted a service for a young woman’s father. I watched with sadness from the back of the chapel,
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