Steph's Adventures

This is the third and final instalment of my June challenge of writing thirty words every day. So here we are, thirty vignettes: inspired by...

I lead daily prayer a lot, but it's not often I get to lead a Sunday service at the Church at Carrs Lane. When I do, it usually involves...

For the month of June I set myself the challenge of writing thirty words a day. Only thirty. Exactly thirty. Part 1 appeared here , this is ...

Once again a significant period of time has elapsed between posts on this subject. Admittedly, in the interim, there was this one I wrote o...

My creative output has been distinctly limited recently: best laid plans of writing more and painting more during lockdown have not really c...

Some time ago, I wrote a post about how, for Lent this year I had been keeping a gratitude journal. It is now the end of the Easter season ...

In a poem I wrote for Pentecost some years ago, which I reread recently, I found these lines: And the spirit dances Within our doubt They...

We live right at the heart of a city centre. We know that it is a distinctive place to be based ... And much of our life is shaped by our ...

Several years ago, when I first started this blog , I had no real idea what it would become. I started writing it when I was setting off o...

  We like daisies turn our faces towards the light so bright But perhaps, sometimes it is right We too must curl up t...

Some years I have found a way to do Lent well, other years not so much. This year, way back in the different existence we inhabited at t...

On Easter Sunday morning, I got up early to watch the sun rise over the city. Despite my later tiredness, I was very glad I did. Birmingha...

It's about a month since I last posted anything on here. As always, there are a few unfinished drafts which may or may not see the light...

It is now almost a fortnight since I got back from a truly wonderful few days in Wales with the participants from the Stories of Hope and Ho...

Scrolling through my blog feed, I realised it was a long time since I wrote anything here about Stories of Hope and Home... which is some wh...

On the 31st December 2019 I was walking along the spectacular coast path of northern Cornwall. It was also, officially, my last day at St Ch...

It continues ... 30) What's been the biggest mistake so far in your life and what did you learn from it? I found this one so hard! A...

I started writing this post a while ago, when the election results were still a very fresh memory invoking very raw emotions. Since then, ot...