by heart and hand

July 31, 2015January 25, 2019

Gran’ma and her prayers

I only have one memory of spending one on one time with my Gran’ma. I have heaps and heaps of wider family memories, but just the one with her by myself. I must have been in primary school at the time as I was left with her for the day while I was sick and Mum had to go do something. I was looking at a piece of her handwriting and noticed the differences between her style of cursive and my own. I loved the old fashioned ‘f’s’ and ‘t’s’ and ‘r’s’ in particular and got her to show me how to form them. She sat so patiently with me and showed me over and over and over how to do them, until I got the flow of it and from that day forward, I started incorporating what she taught me into the way I wrote. The extra curls and swirls were much more artistic than the way that I knew.

July 11, 2015January 30, 2019

Sometimes the forgiv-EN

Have you ever noticed that all the internet quotes on forgiveness only ever seem to focus on one side of the coin? They say things like “unless you can forgive you won’t move on” and how forgiveness frees the one who forgives from bitterness etc etc etc. I do agree with them but they only present one side of a coin – it’s almost as though we are all the forgivers and no-one causes the pains/offenses.

March 25, 2015January 25, 2019

Getting lost and found

Sometimes when we lose our way in life, it’s like we’ve been whacked with a 4′ x 2′ in one of those old cartoons where the poor critter staggers about for a bit seeing stars and then comes to their senses quite quickly. Other times – the way has been lost incrementally, degree by degree over time without particular notice, but then one day something jolts us awake – and we find we are nowhere that we would have chosen to be – had we seen the end from the beginning.

February 1, 2015February 1, 2019

Worth it

Loving sacrificially.
Loving unconditionally.
We only find out what they mean when we fully know how hard they are to do.

VSP 🙂

January 4, 2015January 25, 2019

Soul cleanse

I would never begin a project if I knew it was going to take me five years to complete. For goodness sake, I’ve never even finished knitting a scarf!

Most would be familiar with what the words ‘colon cleanse’ represent, right? Well, something similar in a non-physical manner of speaking, is a ‘soul cleanse’, which happened to me when our teeny grandson came and went within the space of 22 days.

January 2, 2015January 25, 2019

Fertility – a forgotten word

I had a long conversation about a decade ago with a female doctor (a fertility specialist) as we were each interested to hear what the other thought on some corresponding issues.

December 5, 2014January 30, 2019

Firsts and lasts

Firsts and lasts sometimes come or go with great notice. Like a birth – the last day of pregnancy becomes the first day of raising a child – and it is usually celebrated. Or a death – the last day of life becomes the first day of living without – and the life that has passed is celebrated, recalled and grieved for.

November 28, 2014January 27, 2019

Perseverance?!

Some situations make you feel like you’re in a paper bag that you SHOULD be able to break out of, but can’t.

November 25, 2014January 25, 2019

Pandora

Unlike Pandora, it wasn’t curiosity that made me open the box. I had prayed for either peace or revealing. The box was open when I found it, and there was a revealing. In and of itself, it was an answer to prayer.

November 24, 2014January 25, 2019

See

SEE

See yourself.
See yourself standing in your spot on the planet.
See yourself in your spot on the planet
as a singular dot existing in a sphere of time.
See your dot on the planet in the sphere of time within another sphere
called “the lower heavens”.
See your dot on the planet in its place in time in the lower heavens
in the never-ending multi-dimension called eternity.