Today, February 14th, Valentine’s Day. The day to celebrate love. Celebratory hearts, flowers and sings abound. But this year it also marks the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday. The beginning of the period we remember the events that led up to the death of Jesus. It seems appropriate really, that today on Valentine’s Day,… Continue reading Collision

This is what Church looked like for Oscar and I tonight. Out in the foyer taking fun selfies and playing quiet games on the floor with glow sticks. When you have a child with sensory needs sometimes things don't plan out as expected or hoped. An unexpected take on my Christmas service. But being amongst… Continue reading Unexpected

The hymn “O Holy Night” is one of my all time favourites for Christmas. Pretty sure, when we went to the same church, my sister knew she had to include it in every Christmas worship so as not to disappoint. Every time I hear it, it’s the same lines that always resonate for me. That… Continue reading The weary world rejoices…

It’s easy to get caught up in the perfection and ideal of Christmas. Beautiful gifts wrapped under a tree, tables laden with delicious food. Christmas lights softly glimmering as backdrop to smiling faces. Happiness all around. But the message of Christmas is not about perfection, about everything being just right. In fact that first Christmas… Continue reading Emmanuel – God with us

In my Bible, with its tissue thin pages, is a blank page. A blank page denoting the ending of the Old Testament before the start of the New. This page seems so fleeting in its marking of the transition from the old to the new. Yet it spans a period of 400 years. And in… Continue reading The Blank Page

One moment we’re applauding a son for a school achievement, the next cajoling a 7 year old to take much needed antibiotics. I’d quickly gone from joy to feeling very stressed! So much so that the following success of him taking the medicine bringing relief and garnered even more applause. Life certainly has its ups… Continue reading The ordinary days

Joy does not arrive with a fanfare on a red carpet strewnwith the flowers of a perfect lifejoy sneaks inas you pour a cup of coffee watching the sunhit your favourite treejust right (Donna Ashworth) Joy is found amongst the mundane. It sparkles in the ordinary. It is the yellow house that has your youngest… Continue reading The Yellow House

It was at the front of my late Grandmother’s recipe book. Written by her on a piece of paper and stuck on the first page. “Every morning Lean thine arm awhile Upon the windowsill of heaven And gaze upon thy God. Then with the vision in thy heart Turn strong to meet the day.” Seems… Continue reading Recipe for Life

I love a toy kaleidoscope. I can’t help picking them up in toy stores to have a peak at the magical patterns that are displayed. Turning it to see the changes and the light shining through the pieces. Sometimes our life can feel it’s made of broken pieces, shards of glass as we’ve walk through… Continue reading Our hearts a Kaleidoscope

In the midst of life’s challenges, the middle of difficult seasons, it can be hard to muster the strength needed to keep pressing on. To want to keep fighting the fight. Some days it can feel that there are many straws on that camel’s back! When the mountain peak seems far away and the valley… Continue reading Take heart. Have courage.