Browsing the archives for the pain category
A friend asked me recently how I was doing with “the big JC?” I replied that I didn’t think he was very big at the moment!
He went on to ask me whether I still considered myself a Christian. My answer was that it depended how you defined what a Christian is.
If you’re definition is that [...]
I had a bit of a semi-sabbatical time over April, May and June this year. One of the reasons for the time off was to work through the grief I haven’t had time to process before. I decided before the semi-sabbatical to create a playlist of songs which remind me of Amy:
Miracle Foo Fighters, In [...]
It’s been 5 months since I last blogged here. I feel bad about not having blogged about alot of stuff I’ve thought over that time, but one of the things I’m learning is that most things are temporary, especially when you have a baby!
It was around 5 months ago that I had a bit of [...]
Last night I had the pleasure of being taught about Conflict from a Christian perspective from my friend Laura Gilchrist. Click play below to listen to the talk yourself – I highly recommend you do, it was very insightful.
[audio:http://www.christianstruggle.com/podcast/LauraGilchrist_Conflict.mp3]
I recently saw a fight in London which I just watched. I didn’t go and try to [...]
I have now finished reading the book Where Is God When It Hurts and it has been very thought provoking. Although it deals largely with physical pain and things like terminal illness, it still helped me think through the pain of my grief in different ways.
The last section of the book is about what Christianity [...]
A couple of weekends ago we were at a friends wedding at a Manor House in the Countryside which was quite overwhelming, especially since he and his bride had paid for us to stay there over the weekend.The Wedding took place on the Saturday and I welled up and almost cried at 3 points during [...]
I have asked many times why Amy died. I’m not asking how she died, her stillbirth was one of the 50% that are unexplained. I want to know why.
Mary-Lou particularly has battled with the idea that Amy died because of something she did or didn’t do. No matter how much doctors, midwives and friends reassure [...]
I am currently reading Philip Yancey’s book “Where Is God When It Hurts“. I had to buy it after asking my friends if anyone had a copy. I was fairly suprised that no-one had the book, but it’s probably quite telling about Western Evangelical Christianity.
I’m definitely finding the book interesting but so far it has [...]