Encouragement for anyone feeling the pinch in these times... read this story of the Lord's response to Sally's cry for financial help. No, she doesn't win the lottery - but sometimes the point is just to know he's listening!

I love the story of Jairus’s daughter. Having told the story to the church’s pre-school group, and read it countless times to my own children from various picture books, it feels like part of me.

It is funny how there are sticking points in our lives. I seem to always come back to the same point. There are times when I feel vulnerable. Sometimes they just creep up on me, like the one I had recently.

It’s Mother’s Day today so I’ve been musing about the mothering thing. My ‘children’ are all grown up now, and the thing I enjoy most about mothering is the opportunity to just spend time with each one, talking about this and that - what bothers them, their plans, their successes and disappointments and so on.

Have you ever had a week when everything you do seems to go wrong? This past week has been one of those for my husband and I.

I’ve spent many months praying for guidance on decisions in my life: where God wants me and my family to be, and what jobs I should be going into where I can make a difference.

Question: Is prayer an extreme sport? If the recent news is anything to go by, then it is fast becoming one! A district nurse who offered to pray for a patient after she had treated her is threatened with dismissal.

Cynicism, disappointment, apathy, busy, over-busy, consumed by life, running in the rat race, little sleep, disinterested in religion and going through the motions at church, lots on my shoulders but unable to do much, tired, no time for anyone, faith low. This sums up where I’ve been in the last couple of months.

Last week I went to hear Jason Westerfield speak. I didn’t know who he was but I was told he was worth going to see. Apparently he had been in ‘The Finger of God’ movie. I hadn’t seen that either so I wasn’t too excited to go.

Sita has been busy again. Read her very good news here!

I was asked the question above (very politely) by a friend I was talking to at the school gates last week. I really had been healed of a nasty headache the day before.