Live a Big Life

Apr
21

Back up for air

by andy

To quote Staind, it’s been a while. The last two and a half years have been quite a journey, and for a while it was difficult to see it ending in anything other than some kind of tangled wreckage. But God, in his grace, never left our side, something which, if I’m honest, I only see when I look back; because going through it all there were many many times when it certainly didn’t feel like he was anywhere at all, never mind at our side. After both finding ourselves out of work in late 2009/early 2010 we had a

Jan
23

Right place, wrong time

by andy

One thing that I’ve come to see over the last few months is that it’s not always about right roads and wrong roads; sometimes, I think, it’s entirely possible to be in the wrong place on the right road. It’s perhaps more a matter of the speed at which we travel, than the direction we take. ‘The early bird catches the worm’ is a generally accepted truism, but the early bird was in the right place at the right time. The birds who got there after him were in the right place, but their timing was out; and the same

Jan
19

The Journey: Hope

by andy

I have hope: hope of a future that is good; hope of a world transformed; hope of a life that is extraordinary, in whatever shape that comes; hope of justice for the oppressed; hope of freedom for the prisoners; hope of healing for the sick. I have hope that in some way I will experience the Kingdom today, that the passion in my soul will not die, that my life will, in some way, count for something. Sometimes it feels as if these hopes are held in vain: as if I am clutching at straws, clinging to an idea rather

Jan
19

Choices Always Count for Something

by andy

It was an off the cuff remark but it really stopped and made me think. Ben’s guitar teacher (Dan), who is also a Liverpool fan, was chatting to me about the coming Premiership season after a lesson and he commented how, in a time when people are losing jobs, homes and facing financial ruin, to spend £80 million on a player is obscene; especially when £80 million could, as he so rightly pointed out, save lives. Up to that point I don’t think I had ever really stopped to think about the economy surrounding football, other than to bemoan the

Dec
8

The Journey – Despair

by andy

In a previous post I wrote about the hope I cling to; but hope makes for an uncomfortable companion as, too often, lurking in the shadows cast by hope lies despair. I dream big dreams, I have a big passion and in pursuit of all of that I cling desperately to a big hope; but in that big hope I find big despair. How can two things so far removed from each other, so seemingly mutually exclusive, appear to co-exist with such compatibility? Hope and despair are polar opposites, and yet one so often precedes the other, and at times

Back up for air

Right place, wrong time

The Journey: Hope

Choices Always Count for Something

The Journey – Despair

Who I am

What am I?

Why a Big Life?