June 2020 – by heart and hand

June 17, 2020June 18, 2020

*Maya

I started getting to know *Maya about 18 months ago and here is a *post from her heart just this week. Gosh I love this girl. For who she is and the light of *Whose* she is that shines.

There’s a joy that encompasses and moves with and flows out of her. And it’s not that she doesn’t still know hard times, but she knows The King who is bigger, Who came and got her, and Who walks with her daily.

There was something about this joy of hers that sang to me when I first saw her. Inaudible but un-ignorable.

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020

A time to shed

I remember the headlights cutting through the rain and fog and I remember screaming. I remember waking up to ambulance lights flashing intermittently through the night and hearing my name called. I remember the pricklebush under me and a vague annoyance that no one would move me off it.

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020

Body Jewellery

When the nurse showed me the speci-jar containing the gall stones they’d removed – they were exactly the colour of gravel with similar shapes in graded in sizes as they’d nested alongside each other as they grew for many years… the size of conkers all the way down to a dehydrated pea. When our kids teacher brought hers to school for the kindy kids post-surgery, they were all pea sized and gravel coloured. When a friend had hers out – they were chick-pea size, faceted, greenish/brownish, similar sized – and pretty – like beads!

Would I have worn them?