Child – like prayer
Do you believe in prayer? I assume most people answered that above question rather quickly with a YES or an OF COURSE I do. So did I. But let me ask you a follow up question…. Does your life say you believe in prayer? The honest truth was that mine did not. My life reflected […]
Lessons from Facing the Giants
I know I promised this post last week, but life happened. I am sorry for the delay. I watched the Christian movie Facing the Giants years ago and I remember enjoying it the same way I enjoy useless rom coms which you don’t hate while watching them but which you don’t re-watch a million times. […]
Kidney Stones
We have had a difficult few weeks in our home. From the beginning of the month until now we have all been sick with three out of the four of us landing up in hospital. It was tough, to put it very mildly. One day I was whatsapping a couple who are friends are ours […]
Learned Desperation
I have been reading a book called ‘A Praying Life’ by Paul E Miller. It is all about how to incorporate prayer into our daily lives; how to prayer more; Biblical prayer etc. It is really interesting and I have been learning a lot. He speaks of the fact that the more anxious, over whelmed, […]
Camo or Lumo
When we were young, Naomi and I really enjoyed the Amanda Bynes movie What a Girl wants. It is all about an American girl who goes to England to find her dad who is one of the old school, stereotypical English gentlemen, and she is completely different. She tries to change herself to fit into […]
A New Year
2018 is over. And what an unexpected year it was. I did not expect to move house. I did not expect to start working again. I definitely did not expect the two to happen at the same time. I did not expect to make such good new friends. I did not expect my sister to […]
Timothy Traddle
Anyone who is my age or there abouts or who has children my age or there abouts should remember good old Timothy Traddle. He is the turtle from Kideo – or maybe a tortoise, I’m not too sure. Turtle or tortoise is beside the point though, the point is the song he sang – cue […]
Penny for your thoughts
Last week I actually got to listen to the sermon in church, for the first time in a long long time. Peter was in creche and Aunty B took Tim for me – as a side note, looking after a baby in church is a really great way to help a mom out; it lets […]
New every morning
After writing on Friday I felt so refreshed and as if my tanks had been topped up. Which is a very good thing because we had youth camp this weekend and all sorts of issues came up that our teens need help with and we came back home on Sunday feeling absolutely exhausted. Now, what […]
Just keep swimming
In 2003 the movie Finding Nemo came out. Dory, the forgetful fish, often says “just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, what do we do we swim.” This has become a mantra for many overworked, overwhelmed and frankly just exhausted people; just keep swimming. Just keep plodding on and we will […]