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The Best Mentor of All
Posted on July 2, 2023 Leave a Comment
The whole idea of going outside to paint really appeals to me. I love being outside. I love painting. I love all the beauty we have around us. So going outside to paint the beauty I see and wallow in the gratefulness of it all, just like a pig in mud, is a win/win for […]
White Noise
Posted on June 25, 2023 Leave a Comment
It was the line in his poem ‘To The Mountains’ that I have had going round and round in my head. To The Mountains Peace whipped around by the wind warmed by the winter sun sung to by the battered flax frowned upon by the commanding mountains But peace, easy in its age old form […]
A Grateful People
Posted on June 4, 2023 Leave a Comment
The Hebrew term for gratitude is hakarat ha’tov, which literally means ‘to recognise the good’. The neat thing about recognising the good is that when we start with even the smallest of things it multiplies and we find ourselves with more and more things to be grateful for. We are told in scripture to give […]
Oh, Romeo & Juliet, What If…?
Posted on May 21, 2023 Leave a Comment
Don’t we all love to celebrate our mothers on Mother’s Day? Whether with a phone call or flowers, brunch or a gift, it doesn’t matter except the opportunity to acknowledge the great gift they have given and are in our lives. My family are the same. This year two decided months ago to take me […]
I haven’t stopped
Posted on May 7, 2023 Leave a Comment
It may have been ages since I have been posting on this platform, but, rest assured my need for being grateful has not diminished at all. In fact, with all the busy happenings in our world, I have actually been more reliant than ever on taking the time to fill out my ‘grateful list’ each […]
Gardening of a Different Kind
Posted on April 26, 2022 Leave a Comment
“Make a list of the jobs you’d like some help with and I will give you four days over Easter to get as many as possible done”. What a gift! It wasn’t hard to think of them. If I can chip away at something and do it myself, I will, but there are some jobs […]
Joy Sparkles
Posted on April 19, 2022 2 Comments
It’s not been a week of great events. Nothing out of the ordinary has really happened. Yet, I’ve found so much joy in seemingly insignificant things. The warm sun on my hand while driving. Autumn leaves swirling in the wind. The quiet. In noticing it, I’ve begun to wonder if, when big events happen, our […]
‘To My Dear and Loving Husband’
Posted on April 12, 2022 Leave a Comment
This week I heard about a mid-seventeenth century poet called Ann Bradstreet. Ann lived in the new world (now the United States of America) and was the first, not just woman but person, to have a book of poems published there. In her book was a poem entitled ‘To my Dear and Loving Husband’. If […]
Horrified!
Posted on April 5, 2022 Leave a Comment
Yep, I was horrified when I looked back to see when my last blog post was. September 2021! Eeekkk! 6 months! Scary to see how much time has flown by. Our world has been in a state of flux for some of that time with two kids coming home unexpectedly for a while between their […]
Abundance
Posted on September 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
Abundance is “an amount that is more than enough” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. Enough is ” as much as is necessary; in the amount or to the degree needed’. Wikipedia joins in and says that need is ‘something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants’. […]
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