Happy New Year friends - so pleased to be back here at last and with a new year in tow. Here it's a beautiful sunny day that's a welcome relief after four days of solid heavy rain. The rain's had us hibernating which it almost goes without saying has been no problem for me - there been plentiful … Continue reading 2016 Ready or Not
Heart Shaped Things
One For The Weary
For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.” Jeremiah 31:25 Weary, languishing? I think we’re all feeling it about this time of the year and Christmas!! Ugh I feel tired just thinking about it. I know I'm not meant to say that out loud, I do love it, but goodness … Continue reading One For The Weary
A Simple Kind of Wonderful
Everything is beautiful in its time Ecclesiastes 3:11 Life get’s all sorts of complicated doesn’t it. Even with our best efforts, complications and chaos are business as usual more often than not. Yet they have a way of revealing what's really important. They have a way of showing us how very little in the end we … Continue reading A Simple Kind of Wonderful
A Reason to Celebrate
Five Minute Friday = prompt word, five minutes, just write. This weeks prompt word: Celebrate Celebrate - now that's appropriate - see we’re in a celebrating mood round these parts - so much so you might see me skipping. On an ordinary day I'll go looking for them - reasons to be thankful, to rejoice and to celebrate … Continue reading A Reason to Celebrate
Five Minute Friday – Here
Here - - - still in this house - these walls, this space that contain part of my heart -by some miracle, by the skin of our teeth, by amazing grace. When so many times almost bust - no downright broken- we thought we were goners. Grace expired, a mountain of debt, bank balance zilch. … Continue reading Five Minute Friday – Here
Ten Years Today
Welcome to my Five Minute Friday, This weeks prompt word: Ten. Oh these prompt words they take it out of me Five Minute Friday - Sunday here now. I wrote this yesterday after I noticed the day’s date on my computer It’s ten years today since we moved into our house - our first home … Continue reading Ten Years Today
A Good Twenty Minutes
These day's the winter sun keeps calling me outside - so with some phone calls to make I headed out into the garden. Difficult phone calls made easier by the sun on my back. What I noticed though were the weeds taking over the garden beds, the Guinea Pigs forlorn because their cage was a mess and various … Continue reading A Good Twenty Minutes
View Along the Way
If you have found your way here from Five Minute Friday you can read my post here. I headed out to the country for a few days this last week and as always getting organised to go was the biggest hurdle. Getting the bags packed, the kids packed, the pets fed, the washing up done, … Continue reading View Along the Way
Water Into Wine 