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Continue reading →: Get out of MY seat…I’m just back from one of my favourite women’s conferences. Once a year, an army of women gather together to get fired up, faithed up and then go home and live differently. Great speakers, great music, great friends, what could possibly go wrong? Now there’s something you should know about…
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Continue reading →: Praying in hospital corridors.One week ago on Sunday night at 9.55pm, I was walking down a long, deserted hospital corridor, waiting for news. Earlier in the day, my mum was rushed in to A&E with terrible stomach pains and bleeding. The doctors knew something was wrong, but they didn’t know what. Finally…
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Continue reading →: Don’t give up on your dreams.
I wasn’t very academic at school. I hated maths, science, PE and all the ‘practical’ subjects, but I loved to write. I have memories of sitting on the sofa at my aunt’s house in Yorkshire, clutching a brand new (deliciously blank) notepad and a pen. Something about that empty paper and…
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Continue reading →: When someone betrays you…
I remember the first time I was betrayed. I was 11 years old and sat on the school bus when a boy in front, handed me a grubby, much-folded note scrawled in pencil. Will you be my girlfriend? (it said) (And underneath, some multiple choice answers) Yes. No. Maybe. I…
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Continue reading →: Are you destroying yourself?
This week, I’ve been gripped by another Netflix special; Marvel’s Jessica Jones. Jessica is a tortured, messed-up, alcoholic private investigator who has a secret – she’s also a superhero. She developed the gift of super strength after surviving a car accident which killed her whole family. She’s now mostly alone…
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Continue reading →: A poison pen letterLast night, someone left a nasty note sellotaped to my car windscreen. The anonymous person didn’t like the way I had parked and so decided to vent their fury in a shouty, written rant. I don’t know the identity of the letter writer (though I have my suspicions), so I’ll…
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Continue reading →: When life gets hard…
“I don’t know how to tell you this….” The man stood in front of his boss, pale, shaking, nervously twisting his hands. “There’s been a terrible accident…your children were all at your son’s birthday party….there was a freak storm, the house has collapsed….all of them are dead”. All of Job’s children – all…
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Continue reading →: A Facebook mugging…Picture the scene; A family attired in Christmas jumpers, rosy-cheeked, gathered round an open fire after a bracing country walk. There’s a huge home cooked dinner on the table, a twinkly Christmas tree shimmering merrily in the corner, happy chatter, hearts all aglow. If Facebook is to be believed, this…
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Continue reading →: When God forgets you.
Joseph was a pretty good person – a bit of a big mouth at times, but overall he wasn’t a bad bloke, he just needed to curb the bad habit of blurting all his thoughts out loud. But, somehow or other, through a series of messy circumstances, he ended up…
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