Though grief has changed it shape, it still remains. Things are calmer now. Years have passed… The memory of losing our first son, well into the second trimester of my pregnancy, continues to this day as guarded treasure stored deep within, in a place that contains no other memory as precious as this. It is […]
As I enter the eternal pursuit of Love, I am entering an ocean, and just like the mysteries of the oceans of the earth are unfathomable, discovering this Love too, surpasses knowledge. It is a love that is too great to understand fully (Ephesians 3:19, NIV). It is a love that cannot be entirely known. It cannot be described in […]
Think of it as a lesson in vocabularly – Have you ever watched the children’s movie, Inkheart? It’s the story where the words read come to life, and the one’s reading the words enter into the story of words and become part of the tale. Words are our form of explaining and describing the things […]
I sat with a girlfriend as she recalled her story. It was story filled with sadness, a life that had known much abuse and pain. All I could hear throughout was a deep sense of aloneness. A family that fell apart, foster homes one after the other, failed relationships, a job that used her and […]
23 words only. Repeated throughout, these words make a total of 66 words for the entire book, and yet its simplicity is profound. In comparison, it seems the ability I have to define love is frustratingly limited. It is an incomprehensible state of being, the fact that I am perfectly loved by God, so to […]
From childhood, we take in things around us, what we see, hear, know, sense and feel about something, and through the continual experimental exploration of our surroundings, we formulate a picture which becomes stored in our memory bank which then allows us to knowingly interact with our world. With God, we do the same – we […]
Like the morning mist. There is something mystical and enchanting about the morning mist. I love it. I wake up everyday to a curtain-less vista. My husband and I sleep in a room with glass doors from ceiling to floor, where we intentionally haven’t hung curtains so that every day we can just wake up to […]
Perhaps I should apologize for my state of rumination, or perhaps I should not… One day I will have a swing. It would be set back, just a little from the edge of a cliff, safe enough back on solid ground so that when I am in the ‘fro’ I would feel safe, but in […]
We live in a world of rules. Rules apply to every part of our lives. They insist that good behaviour is rewarded and bad is punished. The keeping of rules instilled into us from childhood becomes the inherent vocation of every person until “death do us part” from this rule driven life. Every culture has […]
Does God protect me from harm? Should I pray to ask Him to do so? Does He promise to protect me? Can I expect it? These questions have been a personal debate and dispute for much of my faith journey. How often we pray for protection! How often we think God doesn’t do a good […]