My Bible: reasons to believe in the power of the Bible
‘I turn to the Bible when I’m looking for hope and, I suppose, a bit of clarity in life. I’m quite a patient person, but it’s been tested. I’ve found a lot of usefulness in Ephesians 4.2 which says, “Be always humble, gentle and patient, show your love by being tolerant with one another.”
I’ve got two small children. Our daughter is two-and-a-half. Our son is six months old. These verses help when you are feeling a bit “hot”, when everything is on top of me, when I haven’t slept for five years!
It doesn’t matter that Daisy has just tipped a whole pot of yogurt on to the floor. Let’s take it back to these verses and what we know, which is that we are here to love one another. Mostly it’s brilliant being a mother of two. It’s all I have ever wanted, to have my own little family. But it’s absolutely not chocolate box.
It’s difficult when they are both screaming. At times like that I have to remember to be patient. Life isn’t always smooth. There can be peaks of awfulness with two screaming children. These verses help me be a loving mum.’
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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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