If you’re engaged to be married, how do you feel about talking about your expectations for your wedding night? Are you comfortable talking to your partner about sex? I ask these questions because I think perhaps it’s helpful to figure out where we’re at and think about where we’d like Read more…
What does having an impact mean for you? It’s been a while but last time I blogged I came to the conclusion that I will never be able to do ‘enough’. I will never change the WHOLE world. However, what I do know is that I want to have an Read more…
Do you want to change the world? What does that even mean?! I’m not sure I really know, but I know that I want to. I have just started having some coaching sessions. (If you’ve never had a coach and you have the opportunity, I could not recommend it highly Read more…
For years I have wanted to write something about sex when it comes to marriage. In fact, I have a lot of saved drafts here on my blog which I’ve never finished. So, I was really grateful to Iridescent for inviting me to write a piece called ‘Expectations for Sex Read more…
I preached last week at church, and I was given the theme of HOPE. It’s a theme I’ve preached and mused on in my blog plenty of times before but last Sunday I shared some of what I’d been reflecting on and I wanted to share some of that here Read more…
I preached recently at church all about Moses crying out to God in hopelessness. It came a few weeks after George Floyd’s murder and a week after the Forbury Gardens attack in Reading. As I prepared my heart felt heavy and thinking about Moses crying out to God in hopelessness Read more…
Lucy Rycroft sent me a copy of her new book Deborah and Jael, to read and review. *As always, even though I was gifted the book, I’ll only share my honest opinion in my review.* If you’ve followed me for a while you may be aware of my bugbear with Read more…
Over the last few weeks perhaps, like me, you’ve muted yourself on social media, shared a black square, shared videos, quotes and resources in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Or perhaps you’ve queued them up but not got around to watching them yet. But what next? What does Read more…
It can be easy to feel the pressure to do more stuff as a parent. I know I’ve definitely felt it and I am a big advocate for doing all you can to free yourself from that pressure and allowing yourself to do as much as you want to do, Read more…
I have a feeling that this blog might end up on a similar theme to the last one I wrote – That’s ok. – but I thought I’d process out-loud again in case its helpful to anyone else. There are so many posts on social media and talks we can Read more…