Guest writer alert! It’s not your usual writer today. Your usual Well of Hearts writer has been busy recently, juggling work, organising women's prayer meetings, attending Bible study, dealing with the school closing early because of the heatwave or not opening at all, going to the endless list of end of year school events and is now battling through the school summer holiday. Quite frankly she is tired and decided that she needed a well deserved break, sipping mocktails on d

One day about 15 years ago my husband said something that I've always kept close to my heart since he said it. We were young twenty somethings, looking up at the sky, it was cloudy and he said when you see grey clouds remember that they will always pass and reveal the blue sky. Since that day, that message has always stuck with me and helped me get through some really tough times. When I wasn't a Christian this sentence was like a mantra to me to help me to keep pushing thro

“ There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens ” - Ecclesiastes 3:1 The final day of our holiday came like a bolt out of the blue. It shouldn’t have really because we all knew the date of our flight home. However, there is a saying that time flies when you are having fun. We were in the sun, waking up when we wanted, not having to rush to do school runs or catch buses or trains to work. We spent the days having fun, visiting places to lear

Assignments, assignments, assignments, it’s one of the buzz words in the Christian community. We ask God to show us how He wants to use us. Then we feel we are called by the Holy Spirit to do a particular thing or go to a particular place. Some people clearly hear the Holy Spirit tell them to do those things. The fun thing about God is He deliberately doesn’t give us the whole place, just snippets of instructions. So we go through a range of emotions, do desperate prayers try

“For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him” . - Philippians 2:13 When we were children, we were all asked the same question “ what do you want to be when you grow up? ” and we would all answer “ when I grow up I’d like to be… ”. When I was a young child I would answer “ when I grow up I’d like to be a lawyer ”. Looking back I didn’t really but I think it was just the first job I thought of. Then in my teens it changed to a social wo