Talking Yorkie

Author: Sharon Holland

  • Easter Reflections

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    I am writing this on Easter Sunday: Resurrection Sunday. Four months on from the start of this illness, I’m still not better. In fact, over the past few weeks I’ve not been feeling well at all, with new symptoms added. Please don’t misunderstand me, I am not saying this for your sympathy, so please don’t…

  • PECS: Enabling Communication in Children Who have an Autistic Spectrum Disorder

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    I recently posted a blog for Neurodiversity Celebration Week, entitled Celebrating Uniqueness. Today is World Autism Awareness Day and April is World Autism Awareness Month. I have decided to post my final year dissertation (2004) to my blog for anyone to read. I first started working with people who have an autistic spectrum disorder in…

  • Easter – The Main Event

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    Easter is the very foundation of our faith. Without the events that we celebrate at Easter, we have no hope, no salvation and no meaning to life. This week in our school Christian Union, we were discussing ‘Easter – The Main Event’. We had recently discussed the link between Pancakes and Chocolate and why we…

  • Celebrating Uniqueness

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    This week is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, which in essence, is a celebration of uniqueness. I started working with neurodivergent people in 1986. Of course, that was several decades before the term Neurodiversity existed. In fact, at that time there wasn’t even the notion of an autistic spectrum. To be diagnosed as autistic, you had to…

  • Pancakes and Chocolate

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    In our school Christian Union, we have been exploring the question, ‘What is the link between Pancakes and Chocolate?’ All of the students who I spoke with knew about Pancake Day, which was on 17th February while they were on their half term break. Many of the students had also enjoyed eating pancakes on that…

  • The Narrow Path

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    Being a Christian isn’t the easy option. It’s not the opt out. It’s not choosing the easy life. Often it’s exactly the opposite. Jesus actually tells us that we are going to have trouble. Fortunately he then immediately tells us, ‘But take heart! I have overcome the world.’ (John 16:33). Troubles are definitely going to…

  • Valentine Thoughts

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    Love. That’s what it’s all about isn’t it? Of course, having been married for nearly 35 years, my husband and I don’t really ‘do’ Valentine’s Day anymore. But we do still do love one another. In fact, we love each other more today than we did on the day we said “I do.” I’m not…

  • A Time for Everything

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    I was given this cross-stitch as a gift some 20+ years ago. Whilst I appreciated the fact that someone had taken the time to create this and put it in a lovely frame, I didn’t like it. So I said, Thank you very much, then put it in a box in the spare room, which…

  • Does Willpower Exist?

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    With the New Year now well under way, I’m wondering how everyone’s getting along with their New Year’s Resolutions. We’re going to get fitter, go to the gym five times a week, stop smoking, eat more healthy food, quit scrolling social media etc, etc, bla, bla, bla. Unfortunately, statistics indicate that almost half of New…

  • Not Everything New for a New Year

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    These are my thoughts that I shared this morning at church before we shared communion this morning. There’s a popular Bible verse often quoted at the start of the year. You might have already read it on YouVersion, on some other Bible app or in your daily devotion. It’s Isaiah 43:18 ‘Forget the former things;…