I try to keep a spiritual fervour – I do. My husband and I fast, and I’m filled with joy. I prepare meals for guests, I stay up late to study the Bible with someone, I get up early to pray, I run my children to this event or that, and I brush off any feelings of overwhelm. I rejoice… Read More
As we drove into Paris for church yesterday, we passed the long rippling flags indicating Montrouge where there was a killing three days ago. We passed cavalcades of policemen mobilising for the manifestation that would take place in Paris later that day, and which would eventually assemble 1.5 million people. We were then stopped at the hotel entrance where we… Read More
I remember when I first read Matthew 11:28-30. I was in Taiwan, bewildered with grief over my brother’s suicide, and suffering from an undiagnosed depression from a car accident that resulted in head trauma a few months prior. I was homeless, in a sense, coming from New York, where I had been out of work and staying in my boyfriend’s apartment, to my current… Read More
I have been longing to start the new year, and with it, what has become a tradition of ours to fast for forty days at its beginning. The fast is a combination of food-free days (usually twice a week), sometimes denying pleasures such as TV or novels, giving up things we love like coffee, cheese, sweets, bread, etc. and “adding” more prayer…. Read More
I’m breaking the cardinal rule of blogging and am writing a post composed entirely of bad photos. But how could I resist sharing with you such a cute Christmas service that we had. And we had no camera with us, just an iPhone in low lighting, which was zoomed in. Our small church is pretty international and everyone took part…. Read More
Once, when I was going through a very difficult period as a young Christian, I lay awake at night, unable to fall asleep. I was distressed and hopeless (and, in retrospect, in need of anti-depressants). I picked up my Bible, which was becoming a newly regular habit for me, and I turned to Ephesians 4 – randomly. And I started to… Read More
