It is jagged, yeah, And heavy, like a hard cross to bear, And now it’s stuck in the earthly sea of your when and where. But that’s a good thing, you know? It’s holding a place for you So you will float through – Over the storm, behind the white veil, through the net, Even […]
Category: Love God
Grace: the ultimate Super-Power
“I’m a super hero, learning to control my power!” My husband told our girls recently. I fancy being a super-hero too. In relation to this aspiration, I recall reading somewhere you should find out what your strength is and then use it 3 times a day. Sounds like a plan! But there’s one problem. I’m […]
Understanding – Get it to Give it
To my understanding, it’s a bizarre occupation : “Milk-Making Machine”. How strange to be the source of sustenance and life to a baby. As everyone told me “Breast is Best” for baby, I happily anticipated the role of milk-maker. I understood that breast-milk is better than formulated milk which at best is a simulation of the […]
Finding Home and Unpacking
My Dad was a refugee. Like the many refugees from Syria we have been watching lately on the news reports, my Dad’s family also travelled over vast and dangerous distances to find a safe place and provision. His family had a home with an orchard in Poland. It was taken from them during World War II. The family were evicted […]
Why be Freaked Out When Jesus is Around?
Could Jesus swim? He didn’t mind the water, did he… He could even walk on it in the middle of a storm. So I guess the water is much the same as the ground to him if he wants it to be. But for me, when I prepared to do my first open-water triathlon earlier this […]