Hello

I'm a very ordinary English lady and I guess have lived a fairly average English life.  I'm in my mid 50s and have a wonderful husband and two grown up children and a bonny little granddaughter.  My husband and I live a quiet and secluded life up in the North of England.  We often describe ourselves as a couple of hermits and that would perhaps be how people who know us would describe us too.  We share our home with a shaggy Tibetan Terrier and fluffy Maine Coon cat.

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I came to faith as a child and attended church regularly for a few years but by the time I was in my late teens everything had became confusing.  I found it impossible to reconcile the Bible with what the education system was telling me to be the real truth.  To say I became a lukewarm Christian would be an understatement, I often look back and think that I let go completely but God held on.  My adult life when I look back was marred by poor decision after poor decision.  By the time I reached my mid 30s, I'd been through some stormy waters but had survived.  A story of constantly picking myself up and pushing on.  I bungled my way through High School with poor qualification and ended up in dead end jobs.  I rallied and managed to go to University as an adult with two young children.  I graduated with an unimpressive 2:2 honours degree but rallied again and added a couple of post grad teaching qualification.  That opened a few doors and I found myself working in colleges first and later hopping over into the world of corporate training.

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I was financially secure if not well off and life settled down.  Out of the blue I had the opportunity to visit Alabama with a church group.  I'll be honest, I was more interested in seeing Alabama than attending church but something amazing happed.  I was sat listening to a service and was sad that I had so many doubts about the authenticity of the Bible  Bam... like a bolt of lightening to my heart, reassurance came flooding in.  I can't say I heard a voice, more that I felt the words.  I heard that I didn't have to understand or have evidence but that it was all true.  I could trust that every word of the Bible was true.  Strange, because the sermon was not on this topic.  It was an Evangelical church and when they did the alter call, I found myself walking up and it was like coming home.

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You'd think that was the happy end of my lukewarm walk with Jesus.  Unfortunately no, I had my own ideas about how to worship and although my faith in the Bible had been restored my faith in church had not.  I walked away happy and content but I didn't walk away with the cross.  I went back to life as normal.  I did purchase a lovely old King James Bible from a little second hand bookshop in Alabama but to be honest it was put on the shelf when I returned home and became quite dusty.

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I'm ashamed again at how many years passed by before I finally picked up the cross and how many decisions would have been so much better had I known what I know now.  I now know how wonderful life is when God is in the driving seat.  How when I offer up my choices to God, He always seems to provide the right direction.  How when everything seems bleak and impossible, I can give it all to Jesus and somehow it all falls into place.  No, this I didn't know until I reached my early 50s and I felt obsessively compelled to read the Bible.  I'm an avid reader and out of the blue, all I wanted to read was the Bible.  I had this agonising feeling that I didn't know Jesus and that if I walked up to him and said hello, He'd say... I don't know you!  Circular Grace came out of me wanting to share my journey to know Jesus.  The channel I have now was my second attempt and so unfortunately, those earlier months are lost.  I tried to create some videos but they were all wrong.  Just me waffling on and if you watch some of my early videos on you'll know what I mean.  The original videos were much worse.  Anyway, I decided that rather than talk about me, I wanted to share what had brought me into a relationship with Jesus... Reading the Bible!  That's why I embarked on my mission to share every Word with you.  I don't really want to share my story, I want to share the life transforming Word of God.  I want your life to be transformed as mine has been.​

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