Feast “I am my Beloveds and His desire is towards me” – Song of Solomon 7:10 “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies” – Psalm 23:5 “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” – John 6:68 I was made for this. To know […]
I worked so hard during the divorce to defy the severing. Refusing to accept the trajectory of anger and brokenness that is presumed when a marriage breaks down, I chose words thoughtfully, managed timings carefully, not wanting either of my children or my then husband to be left with the memory of him walking away
…but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die. Genesis 2:17 And God said, “Let there be light, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God
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“…but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:17 You can still feel it. How things were meant to be. There are moments that you unfurl and soften, enjoying the ease in your body, the peace in
You know that I am right there..? Painting streams of luminous colour and radiant light through all of it. The years you’ve seen stretching ahead, with held breath, looming and uncertain, are my beautiful wild garden that I’m breathing into life, bringing to bloom with a riot of scent and life and creative abandon. I
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I had been anticipating this tricky time for a long while. My son, Sam, is bright, sparky, funny and diagnosed with Autism. In particular, change, transitions and sensory overload can be a struggle. Sam was 11 and about to transition to secondary school having been at a small local primary school since the age of
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Language warning & content re bereavement. I have a history with fear. Not generalised fear but fear with a specific focus. I watched and cared for my mum as she died of a terminal illness in my mid-twenties, twenty years ago now. I was ill prepared for what this involved and the experience was so
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Do you really want to settle? Don’t you want to run with Me? To stretch your heart and soul beyond the here and now, to where I am calling you, to where I created you to be; hind feet in high places. You can feel the draw to something bigger, bolder, like vibrations pulsing through
I’ve become increasingly conscious of something that I do to handle inconvenient ‘feelings’. I do it for boredom, emptiness, loneliness, to just feel a bit of joy, a bit of a spark in an otherwise responsibility-filled day. It’s quick, easy, instant gratification. I’ve been quite clever, you know. I spent a while wrapping it up
Goodness…He knows how we always wrestle…how we remember and long for Him as a deeply buried but constantly held memory of how we began, how we were created to be: one and in total peace and harmony with Him, no separation, no divide, held in continual, unbroken Love with Him. But there’s so much noise