I thought it was time for another ‘Life Lately’ post. Right now, I’m sitting in my living room with a fire lit, Jamie the dog curled up on my lap, a pile of books, a cup of tea and my favourite playlist. I put new batteries in the fairy lights in my lantern, so they…
Category: Reflections
Ode to Autumn
Every summer I say ‘Summer is my favourite season’ and every Autumn I change my mind. I love the colours and textures of Autumn, the crisp, cold walks and fire-warmed rooms, the breezy winds that makes you feel like something exciting is about to happen, the feel of leaves underfoot, all of that. As a…
Family
I just read this article, The Families We Choose, over at the Kinfolk website. I love its opening sentence: ‘There’s no such thing as a perfect family. Regardless of what kind of family you were born into, you can keep adding characters to your clan, whether or not you’re related.’ The essay is a relatable read,…
Life Lately
There’s a lot to write about lately. The plight of the refugees trying to get to Europe has, for many of us, been an unavoidable presence in our minds. I find it sad that we’ve all only just caught on to the severity and tragedy of the whole situation. It seems that it took a…
Precious
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…
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 I have felt frayed this week – edgy and unsettled and withdrawn.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…
Life Lived 