Tag: suffering
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Slow Surrender
My friend Lindsay Reid is a talented poet and I’ve just enjoyed her new collection, ‘Slow Surrender’. These heartfelt poems take the reader on a profound journey through faith, despair, suffering and ultimate hope, borne out of Lindsay’s battle with chronic illness. There are no trite answers or platitudes, just a courageous trust in the…
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“A marathon not a sprint”
This is something I wrote when reflecting on Abby’s health and that of other friends with chronic pain. Whenever we face some enduring difficulty, someone will invariably say “It’s a marathon not a sprint.” But actually it’s not a marathon either. A marathon is a set number of miles that you know from the beginning.…
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What I learned about prayer from my friend and her lucky crystal
I’ve just read ‘Faitheism’ by Krish Kandiah and found it really helpful and thought-provoking. He seeks to diffuse the ‘us vs them’ polarisation that often characterises interactions between Atheists and Christians and explores ways that we can find common ground and forge more meaningful relationships. In the chapter on suffering he highlights a couple of…
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What physical pain has taught me about spiritual healing
There’s a real analogy between emotional pain and physical pain. If there’s something seriously wrong with you physically there’s pain before you have the operation and if you don’t do anything about it it will get worse and worse and make you sicker and sicker. Then you have the operation and you can’t feel it…
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