The Beautiful Disgrace of Burn’s Night

Sometimes one has to admit that something so beautiful can be a disgrace. We have just passed just such a moment for the English. I am referring to Burn’s Night, of course, that marvellous invention of the Scots, celebrated on the 25thJanuary! To digress a moment, I think it would be true to say thatContinue reading “The Beautiful Disgrace of Burn’s Night”

Relieving negative self talk

  Everyone at some time or another experiences negative self talk. Why is this and what should be do about it? The first character who speaks in the Bible is God: at Genesis 1 v 3 God says, “Let there be light”, and there was. This is a pattern of God's language: he frequently speaksContinue reading “Relieving negative self talk”