Truth and logic are not the same thing.
(This was a VSP – very short post 🙂 )
Same but different
Circles in spirals
Lisa Bevere says in Kissed the Girls and Made them Cry, that everything in life comes full circle. Being a parent of teenagers for 10 years now, has proven this to be true.
Continue reading “Circles in spirals”Exploring trust
TRUST.
It’s a tricky topic and one I’m still learning within.
I have some fears for the future. Not fears for me… fears for my kids. That’s a scary thing to admit to other Christians – especially the ones who usually have the right responses… because in the process of learning a thing the learning has to happen within the SELF, and sometimes you don’t know you don’t KNOW a thing until you ‘get’ it.
Buried in velvet
I do love a time capsule.
I once read a story where a tailor sewed a note into the hem of a wedding dress that he made for a girl in his village – that he feel in love with during the course if her fittings. Older and a widow, she cut the dress to make a dress for her daughter and found the note. In it he had pledged his love and promised if she was ever in difficulty he would help her any way he could.
If your a hopeless romantic like me, you might be able to identify with the buzz of pleasure I felt tonight when I glimpsed a quality piece of paper that slipped inside the torn, mended, and re-torn lining of a velvet coat that I bought in an op shop today.
It turned or to be a ten year old twenty first birthday invitation. This girl would now be thirty one. And I was thirty six at the time. I wonder who she is. If life has gone the way she hoped it would. And I wonder what I was doing at that time.
It doesn’t have the same depth of romance as the story I mentioned before. But it is a tiny slice of some ones real life. I wonder what the next ten years will bring both her and I? But I don’t wonder a lot. I think we’re better off not knowing. I don’t want to live in entitlement of good or fear of bad. Both will certainly come and that is as much detail as I desire.
I wonder if I wrote a note and slipped it in a coat, if anyone would find it. Read it. Care.
Dont know. Doesn’t matter.
But tomorrow I think I’ll post this note back to the original address. It might make someone remember. Think. Smile.
Like it did me.
Whisker and world #2
There is both a whisker and a world of difference between faith and denial.
(This was a VSP – very short post 🙂 )
Parenting in the slipstream #2
Just saw an ad on telly for a new series “the Bible”. Miss Nearly 15 comments that I won’t like it.
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Forgetting and choosing not to remember are two different things.
(This was a VSP – very short post 🙂 )
Bust the box
Miss 5 deliberately criss crosses the Velcro straps on her sneakers each morning instead of following straight lines.
Continue reading “Bust the box”Older folk I admire
Another older couple I’ve spent time with were married a relatively short time considering their ages. They’d both been married before but had known so very much loss that at no point ever in the time I was with them did they look at each other with anything but sheer adoration.
Continue reading “Older folk I admire”Last words
Last words are so important.
When my Grandma died, her last words were to Grandpa.
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