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I’ve sometimes wondered why the Very Hungry Caterpillar wasn’t given a name. Born on a Sunday he spends the first week of his life eating his way through everything he can find in increasing quantities. But nothing satisfies. On Saturday he goes all out, abandons his fruit only diet and munches his way through cake, […] The post Satisfying our Hunger appeared first on Turn the Page.

In despair Viki Patel watched helplessly as the bespoke engagement ring slipped from his fiancée’s finger and sank to the bottom of Lake Windemere. After many postponements due to Covid he had finally managed to take Rebecca to the Lake District and pop the question. But now the ring that meant so much seemed lost […] The post I found it! appeared first on Turn the Page.

The story is told of a man who collected water each day from the local stream. He carried the water in two clay pots hung on a pole resting across his shoulders. One of the pots had a crack in it and by the time he arrived at the house it was always half empty. […] The post A Beautiful Flaw appeared first on Turn the Page.

Many may question the wisdom of Prince Harry’s very public baring of his soul in recent weeks. But no one can deny the emotional agony he’s been through. In his latest interview he confessed to drinking a week’s worth of alcohol in one night in order to stop feeling the feelings that had become so […] The post Drinking to remember appeared first on Turn the Page.

Michelangelo’s final sculpture remains unfinished. It depicts the moment when Jesus’s body is taken down from the cross and falls into the arms of his mother. At some point, however, Michelangelo had a change of heart about how to depict Christ. An original strong right arm remains visible, but he has cut deeper into the […] The post Finishing a Masterpiece appeared first on Turn the Page.

As Gary Lineker knows only too well sometimes its best just to wait and see. In 2015 his beloved Leicester City Football Club began their season with no one expecting them to win. But when they reached the top of the table, an excited Lineker vowed that if they won, he would present Match of […] The post Wait and see appeared first on Turn the Page.

Forty days after His resurrection the Gospels record that Jesus ‘ascended into heaven’.  But where exactly did he go? In the early 1960’s it was widely, but inaccurately, reported that the first Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, had said ‘I flew into space but didn’t see God.’   It seemed to make sense from the standpoint of atheistic […] The post Ascended into where? appeared first on Turn the Page.

When Halima Cissé fell pregnant she and her husband Kader were delighted at the prospect of another child as a brother or sister for their existing daughter. So, imagine their surprise when they discovered that she was not expecting just one baby, and not even two or three, but nine. Commenting on his wife’s spectacular […] The post Unexpected Pregnancy appeared first on Turn the Page.

There are some things in life which seem terribly unimportant… until they aren’t. Like the bolts I found at the back of a cupboard when we were moving house and threw away… only to discover that they were the transit bolts for the washing machine. Or the Christian doctrine of the Trinity – one God […] The post Perfect love appeared first on Turn the Page.

Where would we be without people like Superintendent Ted Hastings and his single-minded devotion to the law? Over six compelling seasons of the BBC drama, Line of Duty, we’ve become familiar with his mantra, ‘I’m interested in one thing, and one thing only, and that’s bent coppers’. Of course, it’s a work of fiction but […] The post Bent coppers appeared first on Turn the Page.

For most of us parking at the supermarket is a means to an end. We need to get our food shop home and putting it in the car is the easiest way to do it. But for one man, Gareth Wild, the parking became almost an end it itself. To liven up his shopping trips […] The post Parking spaces appeared first on Turn the Page.

Graffiti artist JonOne was upset to discover that his work of art had been vandalised. Painted before a live audience in Seoul in 2016 the piece covers a large wall with a vibrant and striking pattern of colours. Integral to the artwork were the paints and brushes JonOne had used which were left lying on […] The post Trashing artwork appeared first on Turn the Page.

It has often been observed that football is like a religion. Fans follow clubs with adoration verging on worship and make great sacrifices of time and money to do so. So, no surprise then that the shock announcement of a new European Super League produced such a frenzied and furious response. People who interfere with […] The post It’s more than a game appeared first on Turn the Page.

With head bowed and heart broken the Queen cut a lonely figure at the funeral of her beloved husband, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On a similar occasion the Bible tells us that Jesus was ‘deeply moved in spirit and troubled’ at the grief of a woman mourning the loss of her brother. As he shared […] The post Jesus wept appeared first on Turn the Page.

In his latest documentary David Attenborough gives a sobering assessment of our impact on the natural world. Human beings, he says, are ‘intruders’ and that the natural world would do much better if we weren’t here at all. Sadly, it’s not a new observation. In 2003 Bill Bryson wrote in his book ‘A Short History […] The post Are we ‘intruders’? appeared first on Turn the Page.

Following the death of His Royal Highness, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the UK and the nations of the Commonwealth are in a period of mourning. The focus for this sense of grief is of course the Queen herself who has lost the love of her life after 73 years of marriage. It is certain that […] The post The Hope of the Resurrection appeared first on Turn the Page.

Sitting in the comfort of my home while I fill out the 2011 census, I’m feeling very grateful not to have lived two thousand years ago and conscious that the record of my details will have a less dramatic effect on world history than another entry made then. Luke’s Gospel tells us that when Mary […] The post Census 0000 appeared first on Turn the Page.

The UK has recently passed the grim milestone of 125,000 deaths from Covid19. Every life lost was sacred and precious and each passing has been mourned. But during the same period approximately twice that number of babies have been lost through abortion. Every one of those lives was sacred and precious and known to God. […] The post Wonderfully made appeared first on Turn the Page.

On 13th October 2020 Dr Fabio Grandas was flying from St Marta to Guaymaral airport in Colombia. On board the light aircraft were his wife Mayerly, their baby Martin and his nanny. Tragically the aircraft plunged out of the sky and into the ground. Rescue workers were quickly on the scene and to their dismay found […] The post A Mother’s Love appeared first on Turn the Page.

This week nineteen-year-old ‘Angel’ was shot dead on the streets of Mandalay. She had been protesting against the military coup that has once again plunged the nation of Myanmar into crisis. The T-shirt she had chosen to wear that day boldly declared ‘Everything will be OK’. Tragically for her everything was not OK. But her […] The post Everything will be OK appeared first on Turn the Page.