My Bible: reasons to believe in the power of the Bible
‘I’m a mother-of-four so having time to sit down quietly to read is a challenge. But, because the children are a bit older, for the last year I’ve been getting up earlier and reading the Bible.
I have become so much closer to God. I read Proverbs this morning, talking about having wisdom and respecting the Lord. I don’t think I’m a wise person. I’m not very clever. But it says that you should respect the Lord and I do, so perhaps I’m a bit more wise than I thought! Things like that encourage me.
There were always Bibles in our house growing up. I was given one and it sat on the shelf for years! But Beibl.net [the Welsh Bible in a modern translation] has been the most valuable gift for me. It's fantastic.
I haven’t been as excited about anything for ages. It’s totally different reading this in a modern way. It’s as if God is speaking my language. It’s just like an every-day chat. It’s more like reading a novel. It makes God more real to me because I understand the language.’
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My wife and I were told we’d likely never have children
I was furious. I had just come back from being interviewed by a college
I became very ill when I was 20 years old and was hospitalised
I’m sometimes guilty of thinking I know better than everyone else
I was an executive in a company. A colleague had retired and died very suddenly.
I keep coming back to John 6.67–68
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