When I got lost, He reminded me of His love for me, so I came back. He allowed me to miss Him. To know the loss. And because He is safe, I came back.
Continue reading “Coming home”Coming home
Real life valentines
My mum and dad are my life heroes for a great many reasons and marriage I think, pretty much tops the list. They have been my measure in so many ways. As far as marriage goes, if I can’t imagine them being something, saying something or doing something, it simply doesn’t belong. I have rarely seen the same levels of respect and gentleness and regard for the good of the other. They treat each other like valentines every day.
(This has been a VSP – very short post 🙂 )
Mysteries and misunderstandings
Mysteries and mysterious misunderstandings. I do not like them much. At all. Except when they are solved. And they aren’t always.
In a household of 9 we’ve had 36 pairs of relationship in these walls. That’s a lot of interaction and a lot of scope for mysteries and misunderstandings.
For a while we had 10 living here. That makes 45 pairs of relationships. Now we are 7 at home but 2 family partners and 2 grand babies makes the current count of 13 family – 78 pairs of relationships!!!
Add in friends, school, teachers, extended family, etc etc and the extended scope for mysteries multiplies beyond measure!
Yesterday we had 3 mysterious misunderstandings (that I know of). This morning, two and a half of them are solved.
Not too bad in the grand scheme of things!
BE/AE division
Five years ago a tiny boy was born. Though I’m his Granma not his Mum, his life to mine has been like the BC/AD division of history. There was life Before Elijah and now After Elijah. All my previous beliefs, attitudes and assumptions (bar 3 Rock Solid Knowings) were thrown up in the air, each examined and measured under Light, one at a time. Some ditched completely. Many placed carefully and permanently back where they belonged. And still others added over time building on what is sure.
I remember him every day and I’m grateful.
I remember his parents every day and I still sorrow.
And every day I remember the God who loves him more and longs to provide the reunion.
You’ve heard of first world problems
This a 5 year olds problem. Or the type that an uncluttered life SHOULD have…
“Mum, there’s nowhere at our house where I can hang upside down and be a bat. There’s just nowhere! The branch on the climbing tree is just too fat and the other one is too high and there’s just NOwhere and I have to do it on a chair and it’s just anNOYing!!!”
“Soon” is relative
Time is a created thing. A line with a beginning and an end, contained within the expanse of eternity.
Continue reading ““Soon” is relative”A last goodbye
I first met Will about 2 years ago when he first came to our church. Then his wife a few months later. I warmed to Will right off. He reminded me of my Uncle Jeff so I said howdy and we chatted many times over the months to follow.
Continue reading “A last goodbye”Things will settle – eventually
When I did my cooking apprenticeship, there were quite a lot of European women that worked there as kitchen hands and cooks… sometimes I hear things they used to say in their voices and accents (given a reason to).
Continue reading “Things will settle – eventually”Is it a lie or a fabrication?!
Have you ever heard a parent say “my child doesn’t lie”? They are wrong.
Continue reading “Is it a lie or a fabrication?!”Backwards
Sometimes progress isn’t.
(This was a VSP – Very Short Post 🙂 )