I believe in love
I believe in fidelity
I believe in faithfulness
I believe in trust
I believe in humility
I believe in forgiveness
I believe in knowing what you’re worth
And in knowing what you’re not worth
A partial creed
“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”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?!”No regrets – oh really?
I’ve read some pretty nice sayings about living life with no regrets. Frankly, I think they’re just plum stupid. Or callous. Or narcissistic. Or evidence of amnesia.
Continue reading “No regrets – oh really?”Appearance and assumption
Once upon a time, before I was a mother, I used to sew and design clothes for a number of ladies. One of the most valuable lessons I learned from this period of my life is that most women (I never sewed for any men) have parts of ourselves we want to hide or disguise and/or other parts to flatter and promote.
Continue reading “Appearance and assumption”Snapshots of Mum
For Mothers Day
Mum and Dad have always been busy – but if you need them they somehow will be
AVAILABLE
To judge or not to judge?
It’s not such a simple question!
A number of years ago I did a book display at a super ‘conservative’ Christian rally. I’d recently spent a number of years prior to that in a Pentecostal church but I’d attended the same rallies by the same conservative group as a small child with my parents. I stood there awash in The Fathers love and a sense of His presence and joy with the memory of being a toddler in that very auditorium and I knew the same joy I felt in the Pentecostal style worship was because it was the same Holy Spirit who was in each place. Neither set of beliefs governing style had everything right, but the Holy Spirit, by God’s grace, was present in both. He was there when I was a toddler in that auditorium, He was there in the Pentecostal church and He was there again that night.
Continue reading “To judge or not to judge?”Traditions and time
It DOES happen so fast!!! When I was a brand new mum it used to so get up my nose when older mums told me to cherish it as it would go by so fast… the remark STILL gets up my nose – the way I am made IS to cherish it – never needed to be told it – I have so loved these years of mothering and newborn is still my favourite stage.
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