Hello. I’m Tom – Heather’s boyfriend: we’ve been locked in my parent’s house together for two months now, having only known each other for nine months when that happened (yes, really!). Heather told me very early on about the I Am Project; I read her book, which she sent me in the post before...
Dad.
For a long time, when I pictured God in my head, I thought of Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty – an elderly guy, sat on a cloud, looking down on me and judging the way that I do things. The God in my head sees everything, but that did not feel good: it felt...
The Contentedness Diaries.
Every now and then, I get a verse stuck in my head: it’ll come up time and time again in a certain season – in sermons that I listen to, in conversations that I have with friends, in the videos that I have on as background noise. Those words will become my heartbeat; the...
Plans.
I really like lists. I have notes saved on my phone of the most important to the most ridiculous lists: films to watch, friends to see, texts to send, songs to listen to. I make a to-do list every day, of the things that I would like to accomplish. I write shopping lists; the...
This is For Somebody.
This blog post was written at about 11:30 at night, sat cross-legged on my bedroom floor with a giant cup of tea and an old Matt Redman album on in the background. It’s going to be one of those blog posts that is straight out of my journal – but I figured that if...
Plan C is Just as Good (I Promise).
“If you don’t do what God has told you to do, then He’ll find someone else to do it – you’ll have missed what He has for you”. It’s one of the first things that I remember being told as a new Christian. It was the week of one of the many summer camps...
Should we Burn Dirty Fuel?
This post is a kind of response to a video that caught my attention on Youtube – Hank Green is a well-known figure in the YouTube community, and in this video he was sharing his thoughts on motivation, and where we get our...
Lean In.
One of my favourite parts of the Christmas period this year, was a morning that I spent lazing on a friends’ sofa, with a blanket and a cup of tea and my Bible, while the rest of the house still slept. It was that odd time between Christmas and New Year, when we were...
Stop Paddling – It’s Time to Jump Up.
I will admit that I know next to nothing about surfing, and most of my knowledge comes from bad Australian soaps that I watched as a child – but I’m pretty sure that the process goes something like this: you paddle until your arms hurt, and you’re in deep enough water that you will...
Mental Health and Faith: Let’s Talk About It
We’ve had a bit of a focus recently on mental health: it has been amazing to share some experiences from our lovely friends, and to be a part of this ongoing and growing conversation around mental health. As we said in our first post on the topic, mental health – literally the health of...