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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.
Continue reading “Sometimes the forgiv-EN”
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.
Continue reading “Getting lost and found”
Loving sacrificially.
Loving unconditionally.
We only find out what they mean when we fully know how hard they are to do.
VSP 🙂
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.
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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.
Continue reading “Fertility – a forgotten word”
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.
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Some situations make you feel like you’re in a paper bag that you SHOULD be able to break out of, but can’t.
Continue reading “Perseverance?!”
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.
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SEE
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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.
I remember learning in school that there were five senses. Just lately I’ve read a couple of things suggesting that there are way MORE than five. The five we know… sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing…
Continue reading “The box is too small”