by Julie Turner | Mar 16, 2017 | What's Happening
If there’s anything I need to let go of, it is probably a tendency to worry. For many of us, worry is so much a part of our everyday lives that we simply can’t imagine a life without it. ‘I just can’t help it,’ we say defensively if anyone challenges our neurotic...
by Julie Turner | Mar 15, 2017 | What's Happening
Celebrity magazines and newspapers thrive on gossip: casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details which are not confirmed as true. There is something perversely enjoyable about these reports and a whole industry has...
by Julie Turner | Mar 14, 2017 | What's Happening
For years I worked in a school and witnessed first-hand the effects of children’s words on each other. The old rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’ is a blatant lie; Wes King’s song ‘Sticks and Stones’ exposes the pain words can...
by Julie Turner | Mar 13, 2017 | What's Happening
One of the things I am learning is flexibility – not the stretchy physical kind to which Djokovic and my son aspire, alas, but generally letting go of my desire to be in control. Quite often, flexibility is forced on me – this morning being a case in...
by Julie Turner | Mar 13, 2017 | What's Happening
During this period of Lent, we need not only to be prepared to give up things but to take on new attitudes and ways. If we are to avoid the sins of hypocrisy and pretence – looking good on the outside but being rotten inside, whitewashed sepulchres, as Jesus described...
by Julie Turner | Mar 12, 2017 | What's Happening
We had two birthdays to celebrate, though Pat had double celebrations since this morning’s meeting was at Cherry Tree Court: Our other birthday girl:
