Apr 12, 2021
I love thinking about hope, by Emily Owen. Open Ears mini-conference by Zoom, 12th March 2021. I love thinking about hope, what a wonderful word. Romans 5:5 says “Hope does not disappoint us”. It does not disappoint us. A lot of hope is going around at the moment,...
Mar 24, 2021
You went into the darkness of that garden you loved. It had once been a place of refuge and prayer, a place where you could be still with your beloved father, where he would enrich you with his love and power and you would share the insights that came to you with...
Mar 11, 2021
Good afternoon, I am writing to you to enquire about helping me connect with possible participants to interview for my bachelor’s dissertation. I am a third-year Professional musicianship student at the British Institute of modern music. Writing about the...
Feb 25, 2021
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43v19 ESV Whenever I read this verse, I always feel a sense of excitement. Although it is part of an Old Testament...
Jan 28, 2021
A man who lived in my block of flats was well known to many of us. He was a cancer survivor and quite a character. Sadly, cancer then hit him again and he died. This man, we’ll call him Brian, had a communication problem. He wasn’t deaf but one of the operations...
Dec 22, 2020
May the love of God the Father bring unexpected comfort to your home today, connecting hearts that are apart, and reconfiguring family this Christmas. May the hope of God the Son, born into dark disruption and deep uncertainty, ignite a little light in your home...
Dec 21, 2020
I have a vivid memory of walking through a disused railway tunnel at the age of twelve, with the reassuring presence of my father beside me in the gloomy darkness. The tunnel to me seemed extremely long, as our bootsteps crunched on the gravel and splashed in little...
Dec 14, 2020
How did it feel? How did it feel to be Mary On that dark night long ago? The road to Bethlehem so long, so cruel When she was near her time. No rest, no certainty for the future. Her only hope the words of the angel – that awesome encounter; his message so...
Dec 3, 2020
Sometimes life can seem hard As if the sunshine is permanently hidden behind a cloud, There is sadness and struggle, fear and loss And there is no easy path to follow. I remember when I was ministering in a big church in the wintertime. It was an unfamiliar building...
Nov 27, 2020
In my prison One of my prisons is deafness The constant roar and muddle of unknown sound. The label of stupid, the fear of being deficient; The lack of belonging, of feeling accepted. The walls of my prison are confusion and shame The chains restrict me from...
