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I don’t want to save you

Nearly 11 years ago I went to Soul Survivor with my future husband and his youth group.  It struck me then how lucky I was that my boyfriend was a Christian, and I’m often glad that I’m married to a Christian.  I love that I get to share my faith with him.  I’m also lucky that I’ve got a wonderful group of friends who know this same God, and that we can share our faith together.

Of course, I’ve also got friends and family members who aren’t Christians.  I wonder sometimes if there is a perception that Christians are always out to convert our non-Christian friends and family.  Continue reading “I don’t want to save you”

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Please and Thank You

Recently I’ve been asking God for a lot.  Like, all the time.  I ask that baby might go to sleep, that he might feed nicely in public, that he might stay asleep long enough for me to get more than 3 words into a blog post…  I ask for strength when the night has been short, for willpower to do some exercise, for calm when things are piling up.  At numerous points throughout the day I’m throwing little one-liner prayers up to God.

But there are (at least) 2 problems with this.  Continue reading “Please and Thank You”

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Food for Thought

So my little boy has now reached 6 months (nearly 7 by the time I’m getting round to posting this). I can’t quite believe how quickly the time has flown by! The past 6 months have been the best of my life, but also the most physically demanding, the most exhausting and the most emotional! I think I’ve spent more of that time feeding my son than anything else, which got me thinking. How we feed our babies is such an emotive topic, and a really big deal for all mums everywhere. There are various options on how we do it, all of which come in for some criticism, in different ways. And we all have our own hopes and expectations for how feeding is going to go. Continue reading “Food for Thought”