My Bible: reasons to believe in the power of the Bible
'I couldn’t live without the Psalms, particularly when my husband died. Steve and I met at university. We were married for 34 years. He was saintly, compassionate and mischievous.
‘When we got married, I knew that he had a mystery illness. After five years, he learned that it was Multiple Sclerosis. We had been married 10 years when it started to get worse. He just got worse and worse until, in his later years, he was paralysed from the neck down. He couldn't do anything for himself. He could swallow and he was mentally fine, so he made prayer his work. He asked everyone what he could do for them, he prayed for everybody he met.
‘We were students in the seventies and we sang lots of scriptures. One was Psalm 34: "I will extol the Lord at all times, his praise will always be on my lips… I sought the LORD and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears." I was still singing this when I was bereaved. That’s what you have to do. How else do you make sense of it? It keeps the relationship with God going when, like I say, you don’t have words of your own to pray.'
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My wife and I were told we’d likely never have children
I was furious. I had just come back from being interviewed by a college
I became very ill when I was 20 years old and was hospitalised
I’m sometimes guilty of thinking I know better than everyone else
I was an executive in a company. A colleague had retired and died very suddenly.
I keep coming back to John 6.67–68
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