What we eat is unavoidably linked to the seasons, our moods and the situations we find ourselves in, and I am sure this connection adds to our enjoyment of food. Not only can different flavours or dishes evoke memories or emotions, they can bring people together, nourish us physically and spiritually, or add to a sense…
Author: Amy T
I am a writer, reader, adopter and teacher. I have started a new project called Feel Good Education and also write at Life Lived blog.
Tied Up with a Bow
Increasingly, I like my blog posts and articles to be as perfectly, poetically structured as I can make them, rounded off with a nice, profound encouragement. I’m not the only one who likes a happy ending. As Ruth Soukup points out in this article for Ann Voskamp’s website, we often want our stories of struggle to…
On Daydreaming
Forget colouring books and yoga. What happened to the practice of good old-fashioned daydreaming? We all remember times at school when the teacher’s voice became no more than background noise to our own imaginings and wonderings, when we doodled idly or gazed out of windows and thought of anything and nothing. Lately, I’ve been re-finding…
The North Devon Coast: Heddon’s Mouth
What do you do on a Bank Holiday Monday in sunny Devon? (Read sunny, with a few rainy spells.) We were planning to do the whole food shop, DIY, cleaning thing, and then we came to our senses and joined our friends on a walk at Heddon’s Mouth, not far along the coast from Woody…
Easter
If you’ve read much of my blog, you’ll know that I’m a Christian. But I hope that my posts – even the ones explicitly about my faith – are accessible to everyone, whatever backgrounds and beliefs they have. There are so many things that are universal to us as humans, which cross cultural and religious…
On Post
Don’t you love getting post? Not the kind that pings onto a screen, the real kind, that surprises you as it drops through the letterbox, the kind that you can hold in your hand. I recently had surgery, and suddenly was blessed with a flurry of post: cards, flowers, clothes, books and of course, plenty…
What I’ve Been Reading
I’ve had a lot more time for reading so far this year, so I thought I’d do a few mini-reviews for those of you who like this sort of thing. There really is something for everyone on this list, so enjoy 🙂 Books Jesus Feminist, Sarah Bessey I often struggle with gender stereotypes and inequality within Christian…
The Best Baking Recipe Book!
I’ve mentioned it in passing before, but I’ve decided that it’s about time Bake a Difference had its own post, and as Easter approaches, now seems like the perfect moment! It is the recipe book that I use all the time. As a fan of baking, and a beneficiary of 13 chickens, I make cakes…
Praise for (Small Things)
Praise for the crescent moon that hung low in the blanket-dark sky. Praise for the first warmth of Spring and a chair on a beach, Praise for the families that clambered across sand and rocks, jumpers and blankets piled up, dogs and children never still, like the breeze. Praise for the abandoned sandcastle, shell on…
My Prayer for this Year
At the beginning of the year, I wrote about my hopes and prayers for it, about what I wanted to learn and how I wanted to live in 2016. You can read the full post here. I wrote: … I’ve been thinking about how there’s always something new going on, inside us and around us. I’ve…
Coffee
The other day I found a great blog on the website of Christian charity, Compassion UK. The blog shows people and communities in some of the countries they work in and some of the issues they face in a very positive, uplifting way. I loved the video (here) of the Ethiopian coffee ritual, and it…
The Grace
I’m working on a book at the moment about how the Bible is relevant and uplifting in my day-to-day modern life. It’s a bit like a journal showing how different Bible verses have impacted me. I shared an extract a while ago, here. Last week I was at home a lot and added several chapters…
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