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.

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark." Ravindranath Tagore Pete Greig in response to the above quote wrote this; Birds sing before sunrise, I'm told, not because they are happy but because they have been woken by the cold and it is not vet light enough… Continue reading Before the dawn

For me and for probably most of us it was yet another day made dreary by the rain. Not for my little chap though - he took so much joy in it. Getting to hold the umbrella himself. Normally the rain bothers him, but today it provided him with an opportunity for fun, a spark… Continue reading Glimmer

“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.”John 11:25 Such a powerful, profound and revelatory statement. One would expect that it would have been shared on the steps of the Temple, before a large crowd, or imparted to His disciples. Yet Jesus chose to… Continue reading It’s Personal

But if you get lost as you're tossed in the dark of the sea Look for me My love is a lighthouse… Look for the lightFrom Only murders in the building Yes, it’s lyrics of a song written for a TV series. A lullaby as part of a theatrical production in the Show’s story. The… Continue reading Look for the Light