Finding hope, peace and purpose in every broken thing

Hope

Do you ever feel like you are always rushing around and people or things that slow you down become an irritation? What if those people or things actually help us to pause, take notice and even enjoy the moment rather than being swallowed up in the ratrace of life? As […]

#thoughtfulthursday 10: Remember where you came from (and where you ...

8th March 2018 in General tagged community / connection / Hope / Kindness / Love / Memories / relationship / Sharing / smile / Thankfulness by Heidi Singleton (updated 2484 days ago)

Sometimes it’s the little things that make a difference to someone’s day. To make that difference, we need to lift our eyes and be aware of and interested in the people around us – whether they are people we know or people we come across on our commute. Looking for […]

#thoughtfulthursday 9: Pay for someone’s journey

1st March 2018 in Hope tagged cold weather / community / connection / Courage / homeless / Hope / isolation / Kindness / Love / relationship / smile / Transformation by Heidi Singleton

In a country with so much food waste how come we see so much hunger, poverty and homelessness? It is very easy to think, “Well I’m OK, this issue doesn’t affect me.” Yet most of us are only a couple of pay cheques away from hunger or homelessness; circumstances can […]

#thoughtfulthursday 3: Share your Food

18th January 2018 in General tagged Courage / Foodbanks / Hope / Kindness / Sharing / Thankfulness by Heidi Singleton (updated 2519 days ago)

Well it’s only the second session of this kindness series and already it is challenging in places that don’t feel comfortable. Everything in us as humans wants to repay unkindness with unkindness! So, what happens if we turn this on it’s head and repay unkindness with kindness? Jaime Thurston […]

#thoughtfulthursday 2: Be Kind to unkind people

16th January 2018 in General tagged Courage / Forgiveness / Hope / Kindness / Peace / Thankfulness by Heidi Singleton (updated 2519 days ago)

Rummaging through the sales in a book shop yesterday a little book caught my eye: ‘Kindness, the little thing that matters most’ by Jaime Thurston (Founder of 52 Lives). She was moved by compassion to help someone in need and got her friends and family to help. This triggered the […]

#thoughtfulthursday 1: Give kind comments

16th January 2018 in General tagged Courage / Forgiveness / Hope / Kindness / Peace / Restoration / Thankfulness / Transformation by Heidi Singleton (updated 2519 days ago)

women doing craft — Brokenness is cross-cultural. No matter where you go, you will find people who have experienced brokenness and need mending. This is the heart of Peaced Together – to enable people to take their first steps towards a future of hope, and maybe a few more steps on that journey. Tina […]

Taking Peaced Together to the Caribbean

22nd May 2017 in General tagged adventure / Brokenness / Caribbean / craft / Hope / international / Restoration by admin (updated 2519 days ago)

Last night was such an exciting night for us at Peaced Together as we won a gold award for ‘best replicable project’ at the Christian Funders Forum awards for 2016. This morning as I reflect on it I am taken back five years before I started this project to a […]

Journey to hope and peace

18th November 2016 in General tagged Beauty / Broken / Hope / Journey / Purpose / Thankfulness by Heidi Singleton

I first wrote this blog earlier this year after the attacks on Paris and Beirut but with recent events like the shooting in Orlando and closer to home the brutal murder of MP Jo Cox I find myself drawn back to this Blog that I didn’t share before. It causes […]

Love Wins

21st June 2016 in Hope tagged Brokenness / Choice / Despair / Fear / Forgiveness / Hate / Hope / Life / Love / Love wins / Restoration / Suffering by Heidi Singleton (updated 3101 days ago)

There was once a little girl who loved to visit her Granny’s house. Maybe it was the familiarity of a place that was safe and where she was loved, maybe it was her Grandpa’s strawberries growing in the garden or the tree house where she and her brother liked to […]

Lessons from a shattered dream

18th May 2016 in Hope tagged Beauty / Brokenness / Courage / Dreams / Freedom / Hope / Peace / Restoration / Strength / Thankfulness by Heidi Singleton (updated 3101 days ago)

Everywhere I look I see such brokenness! Broken relationships, broken people! Pain and despair! It can be overwhelming, when was the last time you heard an encouraging, uplifting story being reported on the news? We are surrounded by images of a broken, hurting world. So often we try to drown […]

My personal manifesto (a work in progress)

4th May 2016 in Hope tagged Beauty / Brokenness / Courage / Despair / Freedom / Hope / Peace / Strength / Suffering / Thankfulness by Heidi Singleton (updated 3101 days ago)