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Change is a constant. Change within the walls of home is a constant. The building years are different to the years I find we’re in now. I don’t know what to call these years yet, but at the start its about pulling together a home. Nesting, collecting. Now it’s different.
Continue reading “The shape of family”
I have not yet come down from the happy cloud I’ve been on this last day and a half. Very tired, very content.
Continue reading “First family wedding”
Several times a week Miss 5 chooses some stories and hops on my bed for our (little, variable, frequent but not regular) story, sing-song and prayer time. A few nights ago the books we landed with were Noah’s Ark and a Collection of Fairy Tales.
Continue reading “Parenting in the slipstream”
I love spending time with people who are enthusiastic or optimistic in ways that are different to mine. Like Pop Rocks candy, my brain fairly fizzes with delight as I listen and watch… “You see it like that?!”, “you react like that?!”, “you handle it like that?!” Love learning new ways!
(This was a “VSP” – very short post 🙂 )
About 5 years ago I stopped going to church. This wasn’t the same as when I was 19 and stopped going… at 19 I wanted to avoid His presence (and His people). At 40 something I wanted to soak in His presence but I felt closer to Him getting about my day at home than by being in church.
Continue reading “Stop-start church”
I have tried for so many years to get things right. Still do in many ways but there was a specific moment in time when I not only knew God was God over muddles and imperfection and it was that moment the striving stopped. Things were a muddle. I couldn’t unmuddle it. And I finally threw myself into His bigness, full of need and the most honest I’d probably ever been with myself.
This was a VSP – Very Short Post 🙂
My Nanna was pretty unique.
She’s been gone a good long while but I had cause to think of her today.
I went to help a friend with something this morning. It took a bit of time but the thing itself wasn’t a big deal to me because it was dealing with stuff I understood. For her though, she’d got into a muddle and a slump and couldn’t see her way through.
I felt like that recently when future SIL rescued me from a techno problem which had me ready to scream, but which was second nature to him. 🙂
Shopping at our nearest shopping centre today (Midland Gate) when I ran into someone I have immense respect for. We didn’t sing and we didn’t pray, but we did have Church right there as we talked. It’s nearly 6 years since I stood in the almost exact same place having church with one friend, and then another, and another – like a group skydive – each grabbing hold of the other as they floated by ‘by chance’.
Continue reading “Portable church”
When I was a young teen, the topic of the second coming/the rapture/the tribulation/end of days was a hot and common topic in the church. It does still come up, but much less than years ago and mostly I think viewed with suspicion and there-goes-a-fruit-loop-ism these days. Suspicion is good if it makes you look for Bible truth, and so is there-goes-a-fruit-loop-ism for the same reason, but mostly I think it’s I’m-havening-a-nice-life-don’t-interrupt-me-ism or maybe a case of no-one-ever-told-me-Jesus-is-coming-back-ism. Or maybe fear.
Continue reading “Trumpet sounds”
More than once I’d have heard Pastors/teachers speak about how when we believe we’ve heard something from God, we need to stick absolutely to the purity of what He said, but that we have a tendency to add.
Continue reading “Adding to His voice”