Faith Crisis

It has been quite some time since I have written a blog, and for that I apologise. I just haven't been writing much generally. It is unclear to me as to why I have been drawn to write a blog now but as I have found, the best ones come out of spontaneity. For those…

Ambassador

Over the past 12-18 months, I have had the great privilege of becoming the voice of care experienced young people in the UK. I've become an ambassador sharing what life is like in the system and I have found a label I've come to own. However, something has changed. Whilst I was at university, I…

Why Does God…

I was asked an interesting question last week, I won't say who asked me the question but I will tell you what the question was: Why does God allow you, and many others, to have mental health problems? Good question, right? And I had to try and come up with an answer. Something was telling…

Learning to…

Part of my job (well, okay, all of my job) is being in lessons and helping the students to access the lesson to their full potential. Today, as I do every other Monday, I was in a Year 8 RE lesson where the lesson title was 'What is Christianity?' I remember these lessons well from…

How Can it Be?

Wow. It's six days before Christmas and where has this year gone? I'm breaking my blog writing sabbatical to furiously tap about at my laptop keyboard a) because I'm bored as hell and b) I'm inspired. 2017 has been one hell of a year; in both good and bad ways. This blog is kinda selfish,…

Above and Beyond

Recently, I've taken to doing bits of homework that my students get set to encourage them, show them that they can do more than they think but also to satisfy my deep rooted stance that I am a teachers pet. I always have been and I always will be. I tell my students and they…

The Water and Me

I took a week off blogging last week and for that I'm not sorry. I needed some time to think, to breathe, and to get through the first week of term but also to get through what would have been my Mum's birthday. I don't really know where this blog is going today; it's being…

Visiting my Happy Place

Everyone has a happy place. A place that they can visit in their minds eye when the world seems bleak, when there is no light in the darkness, when all they want is for the sky to collapse on top of them. Sometimes, we visit our happy place when we ourselves are indeed happy. This…

The Need for a Tangent Flag

There are a couple of things I could write about today. I could write about leading a Bible study (something I did yesterday) or I could write about how just one person can make a seemingly terrible day become okay again. In reality, I know I will probably not write about either of these topics…

When the Opportunity Comes

Today, has been a pretty good day. It feels strange to write that after yesterday (Wednesday) where I wrote that I came home disheartened and quite down... but let's not dwell on it and focus that today was a good day! There were many elements that could have made today a good day. Maybe it…