New Year, New Habits?

We are creatures of habit. Our bodies thrive on routine—we get hungry at roughly the same times, we generally like routines, and we naturally form habits. This is by God’s design. Neuroscience confirms that repetition ingrains behaviours,…

What happened a year ago today

It’s a cliché: ‘It began as an ordinary day’. But it did. And it opened a window into the ordinary extraordinariness of God’s providence. 7:57am – my husband is going for a run. He’s a very routine-type person so it’s his usual practice, but it’s…

In the spitting image of God

This year on my birthday I received one of those DNA test kits – and I was so excited, I couldn’t wait to do it. I’d been wanting to do one of these for ages. The instructions directed me to spit into a little test tube and mail it off to the lab. It felt…

Spiritual CBT

We’re often encouraged in our culture to speak ‘your truth’. Apparently, it’s no longer enough to just speak the truth – the truth is now highly personal! And as well as being personal, your truth can even change or develop over time… in fact it…