Your questions have probably been asked before. It has taken me a while to realise that with everything I am going through, someone else will have been on a similar journey. Where we end up could, of course, be different but that doesn't mean I shouldn't take the time to stop and understand who else … Continue reading Those Who Went Before
This is not for the feint of heart, as I am trying to allegorise my experience within depression. It took me a long time to write this, and I feel that for me, writing what is going on internally helps to process it and get it out externally. Please do let me know your thoughts. … Continue reading A Shifting Landscape of Despair
I love walking. I tend to do about 5 miles a day. On my travels I walk past a variety of people, all of them a capable of good and all of then capable of bad. For some reason, I realised the other day that if my faith in God has gone then any concept … Continue reading Some Guiding Hand
You should probably know who I am, at least the religious threads of my story. I hope it casts a useful light on what I post on this blog. It kind of seems ironic to me that I am going to do this, as I am not sure I know ‘who I am’ most of … Continue reading We glance back
Are you willing to have your mind changed? Our purpose is vital to our existence. We need to know ‘why’ in order to know ‘how’ we are to live. A choice is something we value, and yet conflict arises when we change our mind or want to re-evaluate the choices we have made. Questions pour … Continue reading A problem of purpose
I write this with the full realisation that this journey changes everything. Honesty scares people, they fear that they don’t know you. Doubt confuses people, as they worry about where you are going to land at the end of the journey. But I don’t know if this will ever land… I wake at nights. Honestly. … Continue reading It's hard being honest
At the end of 2018, I began reading ‘God is Not Great' by Christopher Hitchens. The first part of the book (up to the end of chapter 5) is focused mainly on ‘Religion’, rather than the ‘faith’ belief system that I would be familiar with. Because of this, it didn’t really hit me, as I … Continue reading Unwind
