With the Coronavirus situation calming in Australia right now I’m going to start writing the posts I was planning to write next…
First up is a series of reflections on our recent move from Forbes NSW back to Sydney for my husband to study at bible college.
This was a tough decision to make and I’m still getting my head around it…
Leaving home is hard.
Continue reading Leaving home
12 April 2020
The concept of surrender first captivated my attention ten years ago during a birthing class.
Continue reading Surrender
26th March 2020
I feel like I should be more ok with the loss of agency that this virus is bringing into our lives. But I’m not.
Continue reading Agency
2nd April 2020
Lying down on my bed while the littlest has a nap and the older two watch some afternoon ABC kids I listen to the rain falling gently on our roof.
Continue reading Rain
26th March 2020
We all know there is a crisis on our doorstep.
Well, actually it has already invited itself in and it intends to wreck havoc with all of us, in one way or another…
Continue reading The slowest tsunami
23rd May 2018
All a persons’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD…
Commit to the LORD whatever you do and he will establish your plans…
In their hearts humans plan their course, the LORD establishes their steps. Proverbs 16:2,3,9
Many are the plans in a persons heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21
21 May 2018
The slowly dawning realisation that it seems as though I am pregnant.
Surreal, suprising, wonderful.
29 April 2018
Letting go of…
…ideas of a big family, siblings for my two, a long “career” as a mother of young children, lazy chats at playgroups, an easy social network of ready-made “mum” friends…
Balancing contentment with longing; acceptance with hope; perfecting the tightrope walk of living with decidedly uncontrollable unknowns amidst a present that holds so many joys too wonderful to be missed.
April 2018
“The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down”. Psalm 145:14
Today I am weary.
Today, all I can think of is all the little children.
The ones I see week after week whose greatest achievement each day, and sometimes only achievement, is to simply get to school. Little children who got themselves up out of bed, packed their own lunch, found their own clothes to wear and possibly left the house without someone to even say goodbye to them.
No warm hugs, no kisses, no ‘love you!’ Whispered into a grateful ear. Just a parent in bed, sleeping in or sleeping off the night before or perhaps simply too weary of life itself to gather the wherewithal to get up and keep on keeping on.
Gazing round my garden in the warmth of an autumns evening with the weight of these children’s woes pressing heavy, my thoughts drift to seeds.
Continue reading All who fall down
Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Psalm 90:10
I attended his funeral as a community member.
I did not know him personally, this strapping young man, but only of him and his young sister who attends the school I work at, and in support of her and school staff and simply as a member of the community, I attended his funeral.
Continue reading We fly away…
