Some books snap open neatly revealing their double page spread in a moment.
Other books crack open slowly, the understandings they bring spreading like sunbeams from the curve beyond.
Continue reading “Sunbeams and stories”Sunbeams and stories
In the silence
Something that gives me great hulking bunches of joy is when it is clear a child understands for a bright dazzling moment – how very much you love them.
Continue reading “In the silence”A walking prayer
A friendly young voice called out while serving at the register beside me “Hello Mrs McEwan! How are you?” I looked across seeing a hint of familiarity but having to admit (with a smile and a ‘hello’ first) that I couldn’t recognise him. He told me his name and a heap of context whizzed through my mind as I looked at this tall and smiling young man that I hadn’t seen since being about 3 feet tall. He had to serve another customer so I thanked him for saying hello, told him it made me so happy that he had – and asked him to say ‘hey’ to his mum for me.
Continue reading “A walking prayer”Futility
Lamenting is worship
I had a long season of grief a few years ago… there was a death but there was also a ‘living’ grief – and it was the living grief that brought me the most pain. I wept and wept for many nights – long into the nights and often felt guilty – or like a failure for crying through the night AGAIN.
Continue reading “Lamenting is worship”Overwhelmed
Dear friends who are feeling overwhelmed… I get it. I’ve been there. And just because I’m not there today, doesn’t mean I won’t be again, but I remember it so clearly.
In the hardest of the hard I learned how to do this one tiny thing.
Continue reading “Overwhelmed”Relieved!
I’d gotten myself into a lather over the last few weeks about a decision I needed to make. I felt equally torn for and against it, tried to think of pros and cons either way, talked to Rod, talked to friends, considered counselling, googled articles about decision making, lost sleep, developed 3 (yes THREE) tiny twitches in my face, worried my socks off and finally saw I needed to decline.
Continue reading “Relieved!”Detox
There are both similarities and differences between a dietary detox and a spiritual one. They’re both beneficial. They can both have uncomfortable results before reaching the benefits and they can both lead to new places of understanding.
Continue reading “Detox”Deceived either way
It is as debilitating to not believe a truth about yourself as it is to believe a lie.
Thats it. End of post. Let it sink in.
Wishing
It is so much easier to wish
– that someone else would change
– or that circumstances would change
Than it is to change oneself.
If we know some things about ourselves
– that we can change
– that we know should change
and that we refuse…
How can we expect change in others?