Category: Blog
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20 Years on from 9/11 – What Can We Do?
It’s been 20 years since the attacks on the World Trade Centres in New York. I had just turned 10 years old and I remember coming in the house after school to pictures of billowing smoke coming from the twin towers on the TV. Sirens sounding everywhere. Tears falling from…
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The Mustard Seed Mum: When Grief Catches Up With You
I cried in a café. It caught me completely off guard. But that’s grief for you. It turns up when it wants to with no warning – and apparently with no tissues. As I was waiting for my husband to finish ordering, I sat down at a table with some…
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Be Right Back – on a blog break
I’ve only just started writing again, and now I’m disappearing? Well, not quite. You see, I have very limited time to write at the moment (being at home with young children does that), so I am trying to be a bit more organised! My blog will continue and I aim…
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5 reflections from my hospital bed
In the last few months I have spent some time in hospital as an inpatient. The first time I was in for just over two weeks in April for my stem cell transplant. The second was for a couple of days or so in June as I had pneumonia. As…
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The Mustard Seed Mum: When Mummy’s Sick
I’m not a mummy blogger with Pinterest boards of fun activities to do, Instagram stories of days out with my two little ones or a YouTuber with life advice on how to survive those early months and years. The Mustard Seed Mum is just my corner to reflect on motherhood…
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Why Did You Doubt?
“Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.” Elisabeth Elliot Christians are known for being people of faith who have confidence in God. Surely that trust in God is the antithesis of doubt, right? But what if it’s God we are doubting? How can He be trusted if…
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The Hardest Post
It’s a Sunday afternoon with the clearest of blue skies, a breeze that rustles through the trees and the sense that this summer will be better than the last. Lockdowns became a catalyst for breakdowns of relationships, the mind, the body and much more. There was so much loss felt…
Ruth Clemence 