I’ve discovered that people who live in comfort sometimes say the dumbest things because their comfort robs them of their ability to care. I absolutely hate the phrase ‘compassion fatigue’ and I always have. And today I hate it with more passion than I ever have. It seems to me that ‘compassion fatigue’ is a [...]
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The road between us…
Posted: November 30, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Compassion, Haiti, Hope, Spring Harvest
At times the gulf between rich and poor seems as big as an ocean… and then at other times it’s just the width of a road. Welcome to Haiti read the sign at the airport. Once through customs and immigration we joined a bustling mass of people. It’d be easy to think that they were [...]
No Ceiling to Hope in Haiti?
Posted: November 29, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Child Sponsorship, Church, Compassion, Haiti, Hope, No Ceiling to Hope, Spring Harvest
I’m sitting on the plane and musing about what the next few days might bring. I’m en-route to Haiti via Miami to find a church we can work as part of the Spring Harvest offering. Seems a simple enough thing to do but it’s only now I’m on the plane that I’ve started to think [...]
Been thinking about life this week and where I’ve come from… Realised how much I feel rescued so just want to let you all know… Grace Wendy
So on Christmas night my very ‘savvy’ ten year old daughter asked me this question ‘if you could have anything you wanted what would it be?’ I thought for like 5 seconds and replied ‘more time with family and friends!’ Her response ‘Oh… I’d wanna go on ‘deal or no deal’ At the beginning of [...]
Just a quick post to say Happy New Year! Each New Year gives us the opportunity to make a new start. In fact, each new day gives us the same opportunity. Many of us make resolutions at the beginning of a new year – I read earlier that what we need are ‘less resolutions and [...]
IS SUCCESS WHAT DEFINES US?
Posted: September 26, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: love, Mother Teresa, success
A famous quote of Mother Teresa’s is: ‘God doesn’t ask us to do great things. He asks us to do small things with great love.’ I’ve been reflecting on how success orientated our society is and how this thinking is infecting the Christian community. It seems that success is all about: size – how big [...]
ARE WE ‘MEANING SEEKERS’?
Posted: September 19, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Francis of Assisi, Ian Morgan Cron, Meaning, Post-modern
I’ve been reading a book about St Francis of Assisi called Chasing Francis. I’m usually a really fast reader but I’ve been reading this book slowly so that I can take it all in. The book is a novel but it combines so much history and so many pertinent questions about life in this post-modern [...]
THE CHURCH IN THE UK ISN’T IN DECLINE!
Posted: September 9, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Christian Research, Church, Church Attendance, Signs of life, Spring Harvest
Over many years here in the UK we’ve lived with the reality that despite many church streams seeming to grow and encouraging signs of life, overall as the Church in the UK we’ve been in numerical decline. Today, Christian Research announced that the church is no longer in decline. Catholic church attendance has been steady [...]
WISE WORDS FROM WILLIAM BOOTH
Posted: August 7, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Salvation Army, Surrender, William Booth
Hey there! I’ve been thinking about the whole issue of discipleship recently because I’m working on the programming for Youthwork the conference which is happening in November. I find, that it’s good to ask yourself questions about what it’s all about. Questions like; what it means to be a follower of Jesus and how [...]
