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Some years ago – about 20 – my sister came to speak with me about a particular teaching she could see me disappearing down the trail of – and she was concerned. I was ironing and she was making cuppas I think, when she began the topic she wanted to discuss.
Continue reading “Going Wonky”
Leaving the home of your childhood on good terms has a sweetness and a piquancy to it and has been an illustration to me of how it has felt to move on from the church community I spent about 40 years of my life in… but just like parents don’t stop being parents, church family doesn’t stop being family regardless of the meeting place.
VSP 🙂
It seems to me that the true witchery of beguilement is not the deception itself… but in the creation and carriage of the desire to have been so…
Beguile: charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way.
The first time I paid any attention to the following proverb was in the context of parenting… “The first to state his case seems right, until his opponent begins to cross-examine him”.
You know the drill, you question your child about something that’s just happened and you go marching off to nab the other child – the guilty one. But then the one deemed guilty objects to their impending fate and you start to doubt that you’d heard all the facts previously.
Continue reading “All the facts. Maybe.”
Have you ever heard a parent say “my child doesn’t lie”? They are wrong.
Continue reading “Is it a lie or a fabrication?!”