Life is precious, isn’t it? I’m remembering that today, on what is a very ordinary day. Andrew’s hammering away finishing the bathroom floor, Jamie’s curled up on the bed and I’m sat next to him, laptop and books spread around me. I’m listening to Jose Gonzalez, whose music I had kind of forgotten about, but…
Category: Reflections
The Easy Way
I often want everything to come easily and simply. But I don’t believe that we learn to love unselfishly or give generously or create authentically or worship passionately by having an easy life. I believe that it’s often the sacrifices we make or the hardships we face that draw out these things. On Sunday, our…
Small Things
At the beginning of this week, I wrote this post about How to be Happy When Life Feels a bit Frayed, and I’ll be honest, since then I’ve been struggling to follow my own advice. I have felt frayed this week – edgy and unsettled and withdrawn. It has taken a lot of effort to…
How to be Happy When Life feels a little Frayed
I used to think that the best way to manage my happiness levels was to treat myself when I felt I was going ‘low’. Tea and cake, a new outfit, a magazine, a nail polish, or even a holiday. And these things do help, to a point, temporarily. But in this stress-filled culture we’re living…
Life Lately
Lately, it has felt like summer. I’ve been learning to drive the tractor, putting up tents and eating outside. At school, where I work, goodbye cards are being made, displays taken down, games being played and films being watched. It’s a new season, and it’s good, but with it comes more change for me as…
The unfolding of his word…
I’m writing a book at the moment – a sort of journal about what the Bible means to me and how God uses it to encourage and help me. Today I wrote a little chapter about a Psalm I’ve been reading, and I thought I’d share it on here too 🙂 Psalm 119 ‘The unfolding of your word…
Life is good
Last weekend, it was our 6th wedding anniversary. On Saturday, we drove down to Padstow, to go out on a little rig to watch the seals and sea birds. It was so much fun going out on the water skimming across the waves in pretty big swell at times, and then stopping in the shelter of…
Life to the full
Do you ever get the feeling that life is passing you by, or zipping along far too quickly? In many ways, our lives are ‘like flowers, here today, gone tomorrow’ or ‘a morning mist’, done and spent in the blink of an eye. Many people would say that to confront this brevity we are faced…
Wild June
The other day, I stumbled across this Wildlife Trust campaign to get people outdoors this June. They’re calling it 30 Days Wild, and the idea is that you get outdoors every day in June and do something ‘wild’. I’ll be honest some of their ‘wild’ ideas seem a bit tame, but I love the principle…
Fashion on the Ration: An Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
When I saw this exhibition listed on Braintree’s Bthoughtful blog I jumped at the chance to get along to it. I am so interested in the World Wars and how they influenced culture and ways of life, and I’m a big believer in re-finding the kinds of sustainable, resourceful and creative approaches to fashion that surfaced in that…
Brave Hope
Do you remember when I wrote about my New Year’s Resolutions? One of the most heartfelt was ‘to keep hopeful’. It has struck me time and time again lately that to hope is to be brave. Applying for jobs, trying for a baby, making a new friend, going on a date, attempting to make amends…
It’s been a while…
It’s been a while since I last posted, hasn’t it? I’ve been busy applying for jobs, going to interviews and trying to keep standing up straight in between! There are lots of half written post drafts on my dashboard and plenty of ideas rolling around in my head, and it’s half term this week so…
Life Lived 