Author Archives: Kev Bales

Yesterday at about 3pm I was sat at my desk at work. There was a rumble outside as thunder made its way through the clouds and moments later the rain fell. At the same time as this rumble, my phone buzzed to alert me to a message on a group chat I am in withContinue reading “And now, The Weather”

A couple of weekends back, me, my husband and my brother built a fence from scratch. It was a fun project and at the end we had a well built, professional looking fence and none of ended up in A&E (but only just). Our first feeling was happiness, then surprise that it had gone soContinue reading “The Fence”

There is a fantastic singer and musician called St Vincent. Her latest song to be heard on the radio is called “Pay Your Way With Pain.” It’s a great song, musically brilliant, I love the title and the sentiment behind the lyrics. Interestingly I first started hearing it on the radio a couple of weeksContinue reading “Paying with Pain”

We thank you Holy Spirit for being our constant companion on this Lenten journey, breathing new life in to us every step of the way, filling us with wisdom, enabling us to go deeper on our walk towards Resurrection Sunday. May this nearness we now feel carry on past Easter, may we allow you toContinue reading “Palm Sunday”

Heavenly Father we thank you for our earthly mothers. We will all have a different relationship with our mothers, but we know that without them we would not be here gathered in prayer today and that is wonderous and we give you thanks. We thank you, God, that every moment that passes a woman bringsContinue reading “Mothering Sunday”

Many of us will have the Lenten tradition of giving something up, or adopting something new, and we will carry out this practice for the 40 days. This can be a wonderful experience but I think we need to be careful about how and why we do it. Sometimes we simply fast so we canContinue reading “Explore”

Have you heard about this new game show, it’s called “I’m a Christian Get Me Out of Here!” What they do is take a group of ‘good’ Christians, you know the ones that go to church each Sunday and nod along politely to the sermon. They take these Christians and put them in a varietyContinue reading “Get me out of here!”

Last week, Ed and I were trying to dismantle an old metal shed at the bottom of the garden. In some places it had been repaired in the past, some sheets of corrugated metal were in better condition than others, some screws were fairly shiny and new compared to others. We set about the taskContinue reading “Screwed?”

Sometimes a word or a phrase really strikes you. Last week I was reminded of the phrase “A little goes a long way”. It lodged itself in my brain and I have been ruminating on it ever since, this understanding that a little goes a long way. During lock-down, in theory, we have all hadContinue reading “A Little Goes A Long Way”