Blog - Archive for November 2009
Demise Of A Marriage: A True Story - Chapter 3 Part 1 - The Tug Of Two Loves
Posted: Sunday, 29th November 2009
Catch up with the story so far in Part 1:1 The Inner Yearning. It will be posted, in parts, two or three times a week. For a free prompt to follow the story to its conclusion click the Subscribe button on the right.
Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Rom 12:2
BIRTH AND NEW BIRTH
“Well? What d’you think?” James leaned against the French windows from the conservatory, awaiting my reaction.
I surveyed the garden which looked a small park.
Articles on related themes: Books, Reading & Words; Marriage; Inspirational
Demise Of A Marriage: A True Story - Chapter 2 Part 3 Lost And Found
Posted: Wednesday, 25th November 2009
Catch up with the story so far in Part 1:1 The Inner Yearning. It will be posted, in parts, two or three times a week, with a link from one to the other. For a free prompt to follow the story to its conclusion click the Subscribe button on the right.
SCHISM
During the months that followed my second visit to hear Billy Graham, my faith deepened and widened as I became more aware of God in my life. At the same time, I came to a better understanding of what my commitment meant.
Articles on related themes: Books, Reading & Words; Marriage
Family & Parenting: Tough Love & Discipline Prove Best Practice
Posted: Monday, 23rd November 2009
Bereavement comes in various guises, chief of which is the grief and loss caused by death. But losing a child to drugs has its own grieving process. And it was in recognition of this that I wrote my bereavement poem, Weep For A While.
In my article last week, titled,
British Law Undermines Parental Authority I reproduced part of
an interview I did at the end of my book, A Painful Post
Mortem, which looks, among other things, at parental
bereavement and ways of coping with the loss of a child.
Articles on related themes:
Family & Parenting
A True Story: How To Ghost-Write, Or Write Biography
Posted: Friday, 20th November 2009
True story telling and writing has been around for a very long time but, as a genre, it really came into its own a few years ago with a spate of ‘kiss and tell’ books.
Articles on related themes: Writing & Publishing A Book
Demise Of A Marriage: A True Story - Part 2:2 Lost & Found
Posted: Thursday, 19th November 2009
Arguing a case against Jesus’ claims about eternal life, Megan is brought face to face with the truth that it is her pride which prevents fulfilment of her inner yearning. A second visit to a Billy Graham rally sees her accepting that even a good friend is no substitute for faith. Only a life saving treatment will suffice. But what will it do for the gulf in her marriage.?
Catch up with the story so far in Part 1:1 The Inner Yearning. It will be posted, in parts, two or three times a week.
Articles on related themes: Books, Reading & Words; Family & Parenting; Marriage; Relationships; Inspirational
Sexism & Wonderbras: What In The World Of Books Have They In Common?
Posted: Friday, 13th November 2009
"Publishing takes men more seriously than women; female writing is regarded as second tier,” Lionel Shriver says in a Daily Telegraph article on sexism in the world of books.
Ms Shriver, born Margaret Ann Shriver, is an American
journalist, and author of the acclaimed novel, We Need To Talk
About Kevin.
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Books, Reading & Words
Demise Of A Marriage: A True Story - Part 2:1 Lost & Found
Posted: Thursday, 12th November 2009
With marriage, babies and moving house having failed to still the inner yearning in Megan’s life, she feels sure that her new friendship with Eileen must be the answer. Especially when Eileen invites her to hear Billy Graham. Eileen has a faith in God which Megan finds enviable. Eileen knows Jesus as her Saviour and Lord. Can Eileen change Megan’s life for the better?
Catch up with the story so far in
Part 1:1 The Inner Yearning. It will be posted, in
parts, two or three times a week. For a free prompt to
follow the story to its conclusion click the Subscribe button on
the right.
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Books, Reading & Words; Family & Parenting; Marriage; Inspirational
British Law Undermines Parental Authority: Novel Shows How
Posted: Tuesday, 10th November 2009
I wrote, last week, about the sad story of Kate Walsh who, at the tender age of sixteen, became a heroin addict and died, alone in a dirty squat. Her parents had asked, repeatedly, for help from various authorities and received none. They had, as the Coroner described it at Kate’s Inquest, fallen into a ‘grey area’.
Since it highlights that grey area, I thought it might be
helpful, this week, to reproduce part of the interview at the end
of my book, A Painful Post Mortem.
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Books, Reading & Words; Family & Parenting; Current Affairs
Demise Of A Marriage: A True Story - Part 1:3 The Inner Yearning
Posted: Monday, 9th November 2009
With two babies only a year apart in age, Meg is as lonely as ever. Will moving house be the answer? For a while it seems a possibility. But as James’ career ambitions take him away from home once more, it seems that only a new friendship might fill that inner yearning.
Catch up with this true story so far in
Part 1:1 The Inner Yearning. It will be posted, in parts, two
or three times a week. You may wish to subscribe (for a
free prompt) to follow the story to its conclusion. Simply click on
the button on the right.
Articles on related themes:
Relationships; Marriage; Family & Parenting; Books, Reading & Words; Inspirational
Heroin Addicts Like Kate Walsh Show That The Grey Areas Of British Law Need A Black & White Reform
Posted: Wednesday, 4th November 2009
We read, this week, of a situation which has complied with British law but which is, nevertheless, a grave miscarriage of justice. Kate Walsh’s parents, when their sixteen year old daughter died of heroin in a dirty squat, were denied the protection that the law is supposed to provide. They are not alone. British law in the area of adolescents is a mess.
“I have lost faith in the police, in doctors, in the Government; they have shown a shocking level of incompetence,” Kate’s father, Anthony Walsh, is reported as saying.
A "GREY AREA" IN BRITISH LAW
He’s right! And the sad thing about it is that there’s nothing new in this.
Articles on related themes: Bereavement; Family & Parenting; Current Affairs; Life, Faith & Other Stuff
Demise Of A Marriage: A True Story - Part 1:2 The Inner Yearning
Posted: Wednesday, 4th November 2009
Less than a year into Megan’s marriage to James, with her baby born and motherhood now a reality, the cracks which were apparent from the outset, are beginning to widen. As the swinging sixties begin to make themselves felt, the over-riding question is: can Megan find, in James, the love she craves?
Catch up with the story so far in Part 1:1 The Inner Yearning. It will be posted, in parts, two or three times a week. You may wish to subscribe (for a free prompt) to follow the story to its conclusion. Simply click the button on the right.
MOTHERHOOD
James laid his newspaper down.
Articles on related themes: Relationships; Marriage; Family & Parenting; Books, Reading & Words; Inspirational
Demise Of A Marriage: A True Story - Part 1:1 The Inner Yearning
Posted: Monday, 2nd November 2009
What follows is a true story, the real life story of a woman named Megan, who was raised in an era when to be married, to be a wife, was the pinnacle of aspiration for a woman. The expectation that you shopped, cooked, cleaned and raised children whilst your husband worked, played and waited to be waited on was rife. But, on the cusp of the hedonistic sixties, the expectation often failed to deliver.
It will be posted, in parts, two or three times a week.
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to its conclusion.
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