OK, so it’s been ages since I’ve updated this blog or my book review blog (www.amysbookcorner.wordpress.com), but during that 2 months, I’ve been reading, watching, learning and growing. I don’t really know where to start, so to sum up my beginning of 2013, here are a few ‘Top 3’s’. Feel free to skip to the…
Category: Reflections
New Year’s Resolutions?
Love them or hate them, now is the season for making New Year’s Resolutions. Now I am well aware that many people have lost interest in them over the years, whether put off by the commercialisation of fitness fads, the myriad of banale and superficial resolutions out there, or because they simply don’t/can’t/won’t keep them. This morning…
The Spirit of Christmas
This year I am struggling with Christmas. I work in both churches and schools so think double figures of Christmas plays attended, a workload that feels as heavy as a pregnant lady on a donkey, and parties dampened by the prospect of getting up early the next day for assemblies, children’s parties, church services, rehearsals…
A normal, rainy day
So today was a normal, rainy day. But it is one of those handful of days in my life when I have stopped and thought, I will look back on this day as a significant one. It’s been a busy workday which started early and finished fairly late, a day made up of different segments…
Amazon
Yesterday I caught a programme on TV called ‘Nature’s Microworlds’. The programme was looking at the Amazon ecosystem and how plants and animals have developed intricate systems of interdependence, enabling them to continue to grow and reproduce in the tough, nutrient low climate. I found it fascinating. Species of flowers grow in certain shapes so…
10 000 Reasons
Life can be tough sometimes, can’t it? We all have those days when put-downs at work, simple mistakes, bad weather, too much to do, not enough to do, loneliness, worry and all kinds of other niggles can really wear us down. And then there are the bigger things – loss, illness, conflict, separation… This is…
Life Lived 