If you had seen the big chocolate fudge cake for two quid on sale in Sainsbury’s on a casual Thursday night, don’t pretend you wouldn’t have snapped it up too. It wasn’t that I was hungry for the cake particularly, but something in me decided that the discounted item was too good to pass up, […]
Author: Miriam Swaffield
You know what’s even more frustrating than that moment when you have a golden opportunity to share your faith and you bottle it? That moment when you take the opportunity to share your faith, start well, but fall down in your last twenty metres of track, and end up face down still holding the baton […]
He should have died at the scene. That was what they were saying. His first 24 hours after the car crash were to be his last. That was what everyone was preparing themselves for. So when he walked into the living room last week, smiling, I don’t think any of us quite had the words […]
“I figured you’d ask me where I’m at with God stuff so I spent a few hours last night thinking about the answer to that question.” I didn’t expect Matt to come out with that. I didn’t realise I was so predictable. We only had an hour or so for a mug of tea outside […]
A Christian and a Muslim were walking down the road. Sounds like the start of a bad joke doesn’t it? In fact, this was last Sunday. My newly met Muslim friend genuinely wanted to know whether she would be “allowed” to come to church with me. I’d not really noticed the headscarf. Looking back, I […]
