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Garden of Trust
You’d think that after 5 years, leaving Taizé would get easier. It doesn’t. It gets harder. The notes of a friend who, like me, journeyed to Taizé for the fifth time this year, returning to the UK a week … Continue reading
Posted in character, children, church, disability, faith, mental health, mental illness, plans, prayer, trust, work, worship
Tagged borderline personality disorder, bpd, Christianity, church, emotionally unstable personality disorder, eupd, pilgrimage of trust, prayer, Taize, trust in God, veneration of the cross
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Taste the Rainbow 🌈
As I cack-handedly gave the children’s address this morning, offering M and Ms (other sugar-coated chocolates are available) in an attempt to demonstrate that colour is inconsequential to taste, this is the slogan that was running amok in my mind. … Continue reading
Healing Steps
Be still for the power of the Lord Is moving in this place He comes to cleanse and heal To minister his grace No work too hard for him, in peace receive from him. Be still for the power of … Continue reading
Posted in church, faith, forgiveness, mental health, mental illness, prayer, trust
Tagged avoidant personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, bpd, church, emotionally unstable personality disorder, eupd, God, group therapy, mental health, mental illness, prayer, therapeutic community, two:23
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Treading water
Can you step into the same river twice? It doesn’t feel like there is any solid ground underneath my feet anymore. Like I am desperately trying to step down to find it, but finding that it isn’t there, and that … Continue reading
Posted in mental health, mental illness, morality, plans, prayer, trust, work
Tagged borderline personality disorder, bpd, church, exhaustion, fear, God, mental illness, suicide, worry
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In the fast lane
I walk a pace: I can make it from Magdalen Street East to Queen’s Lane in under three minutes to get the coach to London in the mornings. On London days, I clear 10 000 steps, no problem. I am … Continue reading
Posted in character, church, Everything else, mental health, mental illness, work
Tagged anger, balance, borderline personality disorder, bpd, burn-out, church, fast lane, God, London, mental illness
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New Leaves
So, a new term begins. With it, the hills of Scotland are replaced with mountains of essay marking; the gentle sunsets with sharp early morning awakenings, the larks singing into the darkness before the dawn. The darkness before the dawn. … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, character, children, church, faith, mental health, mental illness, work
Tagged avpd, Bible, borderline personality disorder, bpd, church, God, mental illness, prayer, Spring
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