Sheila Bridge Blog
This weekend I am giving a seminar called 'Loving Difficult People' (part of the Activate conference in London, but it's fully booked, so you can't come, sorry!) I could have called it 'how to love people who drive you bonkers' or 'getting along with people you don't like' or 'staying connected and staying sane'. But I... Continue Reading →
Sometimes I am tempted to think of my life as a filing cabinet. There are just so many compartments in my mind. At the start of every week I write three lists over a double page spread in my notebook. On the left hand side I have a whole page under the heading CHURCH (which... Continue Reading →
I have recently learnt to swim... again.I guess I must have learnt when I was very small because I have loads of memories of swimming but none whatsoever of actually being taught to swim, which probably explains why I was never very good. Terror of being underwater isn't exactly an asset for successful swimming and had,... Continue Reading →
Christians have a hard time admitting 'bad' feelings. Mention 'anger', 'sadness', 'fear', 'worry' or 'envy' and eyes start to glaze over with a readiness to deny all. Fearful of sin, many have believed that it is better to deny these feelings any place in our lives. So instead of acknowledging them, confessing them or allowing... Continue Reading →
Quite a long time ago I came across a list of 'Thots', silly one-liners that people put up on Facebook or under their email 'signature'. Most were only mildly entertaining: "Do NOT argue with a spouse who is packing your parachute" "I'm not sure how ambivalent I should be" That sort of thing. But there... Continue Reading →
John 15 is a pivotal passage in my life. Verse 5 'apart from me you can do nothing' has become the foundation statement of my calling. In addition I have just written a 5,00o word study of these 11 verses. One of my conclusions is that we have lost the impact of this passage because... Continue Reading →
I have just had the opportunity to deacon at the Cathedral. (Is there a verb 'to deacon'? I'm not sure) I enjoyed it immensely and hopefully didn't disgrace myself, I think I was only in the wrong place at the wrong time just the once, or maybe it was twice? There's an awful lot to... Continue Reading →
No, really, there are! This is not a metaphor. There are 12 bearded dragon lizards, 7 pythons, 5 snake eggs, a chameleon, 2 gamma lizards and 1 emperor scorpion! All in the bottom two baskets of my freezer, nestling beneath my pies, pizzas and apple crumbles. (You might not want to come round for supper... Continue Reading →
This morning I walked Bob as usual on the field. Nothing else about our walk turned out to be 'as usual'. No sooner did his four paws hit the turf, but his nose went down and he was off! He raced around and around in circles, going as far away from me as possible, when... Continue Reading →
Last night we went to Stratford to see this play. It was extraordinary and throughly enjoyable. At one level it was the story of various Bible translators: Tyndale and the committee that produced the King James Version whose 400 year anniversary was last year. At another level it was a play about words: the fine... Continue Reading →
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