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The Things People Say!
March 1st is International Wheelchair day, and December 3rd is International Day of Persons with Disabilities (#IDPD2021). Wow, that’s a mouthful! You might not know that I’m a wheelchair user and as such, I get a lot of weird things said to me! So, I wanted to have some fun and show some of the […]
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Problem? Or Purpose & Potential?
I originally wrote this over 9 years ago! It was posted on my ancient ‘Musings of a kids worker’ blog, but I found the draft of it when sorting through old files trying to find something else. Because it’s ‘Disability History Month’ I’ve been picking up some historical blogs again and this has been added […]
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A Brief Update
I’ll start with a heartfelt thanks to all those who support and pray for us – we couldn’t do what we do without you all! If you missed the update about the streamlining of my ministry, you can catch up a little with this interview with our pastor, Andy. It gives a brief overview of […]
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High Court Ruling
This is a difficult post to write. Information about the court ruling I am talking about can be found here (Click the word ‘here’ that is in bold print) It needs a trigger warning for text talking about ‘elective termination’ up to 40 weeks, specifically due to disability. The difference with this campaign is its […]
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What Was I Praying…?
I wrote this back in 2013 as part of a longer series on prayer. I’ve reworked it a bit to to make it a stand alone piece and also have it on the Pondering Platypus Resources site. I hope you find it helpful: Let’s be honest – we all find prayer difficult at some point […]
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What Are You Afraid Of?
I’m shielding.I’ve seen posts on social media saying people like me are cowards, making a mountain out of a molehill, or making Covid an excuse for what we don’t want to do etc. None of these things are true! No one has actually asked me what I’m afraid of, but I’m aware there are some […]
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“But, You’re Disabled?”: Ministry, Disability and How it Works (For Me).
Just in case you don’t know me: I’m in full time ministry and have been for over 27 years. I’m also disabled. I don’t want disability to be the starting point – but rather an ‘Oh by the way’, because I am more than my wheels and the way my eyes work. That should be […]
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Hugs & Awareness Days
The writer in me really enjoys having two random things to combine in a post, and today gives me the satisfaction of being able to do this. Both of the illnesses I have are pain disorders: One is Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome (CMPS). If I lived in the USA I could add ‘stage four’ at […]
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Transferring Websites
Due to changes in the software on Wix, editing my old site is no longer visually accessible – which has forced me to look elsewhere.It seems many website creating platforms help you to make your site accessible to others……but they don’t expect visually impaired to people to create websites!I’ve also been recently told of many […]
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