Happy New Year! I hope you are enjoying the last day of 2015 🙂 Looking back over the posts from the year is perhaps a little introspective, but it gives me a good insight into what’s been popular or has struck a chord with all you lovely readers. Here are ten of the most popular posts…
Month: December 2015
New Year: JOY
I feel increasingly that 2016 will be my year to focus on JOY. Joy? Joy? Really? Yep, joy. Where is the place for joy in today’s messed up world? As Ann Voskamp writes so eloquently (here), ‘how in the world does a weary world rejoice?’Â How, indeed. You know, plenty of people are finding an answer…
2015: Hope
It doesn’t feel like a year ago that I was writing this post, summing up 2014, but here I am, at the close of another year. I started 2015 with a strong focus on hope, as I wrote here, and this very much stayed with me throughout the year. I have learnt that hope is…
Small Things
Do you remember when I used to write ‘Small Things’ posts almost every week? It’s been a while since my last one, and I miss putting together these lists of the small things I’m thankful for. It’s about time that I collate a new one, so here are my December 2015 ‘Small Things’: Presents! As much as…
Advent Peace
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about peace. These do not seem to be peaceful times. We have one of the biggest global refugee crises in history, and no one can agree on what to do about it. We have violent attacks being conducted on civilians, and it seems that one of the few solutions…