About

Hey, I’m Laura.

I was brought up in a loving home and traveled a lot as a child because of my dad’s job. I have an irrational love of cats and an irrational fear of spiders (thankfully cats are great spider-catchers).

I was baptised as a 6 month old baby but had very little to do with religion. Despite this, I began to feel a bizarre desire to go to Church and started attending when I was 16. At first I didn’t understand a lot of what I was hearing but a couple of months later we sang a hymn of how God’s love is displayed in the death of Jesus for our sins and I was almost reduced to tears by what I felt to be true for the first time. While I still knew that there was a lot I had to explore and learn, I knew that something had changed inside me. My Christian faith has been tested and grown since then. I have also come to know my own failings, flaws and fears more deeply but, mercifully, God has equally made himself known to me more and more too. I will never comprehend the grace of God.

I moved to London in September 2013 to study at university and have lived here ever since. I love it, although it’s a difficult place to live at times. I studied English and I can remember inventing my own stories of people I’d conjured up in my head for as long as I can remember. I still love writing stories, poems and daydreaming – perhaps I’ll share some with you.

I’d love to hear your story too.