I have been waiting to post this a long long time. Longer than a year. Longer than a decade. I wrote it nearly a year ago in readiness so there’s a little P.S. at the end. Much has unfolded and the time is right at last. It is for anyone who wasn’t already aware, has felt surprised, or is simply interested in reading some of my own backstory regarding our Cal being at Shalom House. I know that I know that I KNOW other’s hearts are breaking as mine was for so long – I pray with all my heart that you’ll find encouragement and hope in this rather long post – long even by my standards 🙂
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When the formulas are stilled; the theories are quieted and the wings of their hope have grown weary – there will still be – Jesus.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ”
Matt 11:28-30
This has been a VSP 🙂
What tomatoes taught me about relationships
Hope
Someone once said to me that hope can be very dangerous, and Proverbs says “Hope deferred makes the heart sick” but today I am grateful that hope can spring up like magically appearing stepping stones that show you the way to go within a sea of “agggggghhhhh!”…
“Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from Him.”
Brain fizz
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 🙂 )
Growth of beauty
I’d had a miscarriage about 3 weeks before I stood at the edge of a gorge in Queensland marvelling at its beauty. Up to that stage, the miscarriage had been the hardest thing I’d ever known, and tears were never very far away. (This was 20 years ago almost exactly).
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