Tag: God

Shock, horror

I’ve been working in mental health for the last 2-3 years, and trained about 10 years ago as a psychiatric social worker, however my “in-house”training took place mainly through my family’s experience of dealing with psychiatric in-patient stays in the early 90’s and more recently support from a crisis team for a family member during […]

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Just the way you are

26-28 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to the Galilean village of Nazareth to a virgin engaged to be married to a man descended from David. His name was Joseph, and the virgin’s name, Mary. Upon entering, Gabriel greeted her: Good morning! You’re beautiful with God’s beauty, Beautiful inside and […]

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True Intimacy

I’m really loving this song by the Rend Collective at the moment, it’s really soothing. The other day at work, I heard it flash through my mind in the middle of a heated email discussion about work priorities and deadlines, and it made me feel like that I’d come up for air and swallowed some […]

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It’s Magic

I seem to watch alot of kids TV programmes at the moment, and most of the time it’s quite unrealistic, so Bob the builder always gets work done on time, Postman Pat hasn’t faced any disciplinary hearings despite his inability to get the post delivered to the right place on time, and despite the Wise […]

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Ascension

We’ve been watching this programme that’s out at the moment, its about a social experiment, where a group of people are under the impression they are on a space ship going out into the universe, seeking a new planet and new place to live. The people selected to be part of this experiment left in […]

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Candles, Ghosts and Saints

We are big fans of Halloween in this house, and looking forward to a bit of trick-or-treating this Friday. It’s fun getting dressed up and carving pumpkins, and cheers us up after the clocks go back. Like Christmas none of this has got anything to do with the real reason Halloween exists (although some would say the […]

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