It’s been some time since my last post, in fact, more than a decade. When I first wrote here in 2011, life and ministry looked quite different. Since then, much has changed, yet the heart of Grace and Faith Counselling remains the same: helping people find hope and steadiness in the storms of life.
The last ten years have held many challenges, both personally and in the country. Perhaps the greatest for us was Covid — learning to adapt to online counselling and technology (I am finally comfortable with Zoom appointments!). Linda’s health declined and she had to retire, and I too stepped back from tutoring counselling courses at Epping Forest College to focus on Grace and Faith Counselling as a semi-retired counsellor.
Through it all, our relationship with God has remained our foundation keeping us sane in an often insane world. I’ve been honoured to walk with many clients through their own storms and to witness, time and again, how His grace meets people right where they are.
As I return to writing, I hope to share a few reflections drawn from Scripture, faith, and counselling experience. The first of these, “Jesus in the Boat,” explores one of my favourite metaphors for living through life’s storms with Christ at the centre.
I hope you will find these reflections helpful.
In many ways, that image of the storm-tossed boat has come to mean more to me with each passing year. Life brings tempests we never saw coming, yet the lesson remains the same: Jesus is still in the boat. The next reflection grew out of that truth — a meditation on what it means to stay calm, keep faith, and let His presence still the storm within.
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