The roof has been bad for years. This was THE spring to get it done finally. We had the equipment rented, the qualified friend prepared to help us, everything delivered and ready… and then it rained… and rained… every day for a few weeks.
All posts in Living IN Him (year… and here on in)
Dirt, Seeds, Hoping For Growth
All one really needs is some tilled dirt. Today I found three relativity small patches in the yard that I could tame into a garden. Grass and weeds had to be dug out and I gave the soil a turn with a garden claw. All very rewarding work in spite of my complaining back.
FIVE K
When she asked me to join her in doing a 5 k, my husband advised me to say yes before I thought myself out of it. And he was right. I would have found an adequately deep rooted internal conflict to make me back away from a new adventure in life. Often we can see uneasy growth coming from a mile away… in this case I saw it 5 k away… I had enough desire to move beyond my self inflicted limitations to say yes and leave the thinking for later.
Rewards
Everyone likes to be rewarded. My youngest and I found these delicate desserts after a morning of much running around. They appeared to be the perfect reward for the two of us, after all we had both been on our best behaviour this grocery day.
Walk With Me
There is nothing like depression to make you feel alone. Alone is a terrible feeling… it is painful… and ultimately a terrible lie. Continue reading →
Person – Ality (When is it really me?)
PERSONALITY – The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character.
We all have trouble seeing the faults in our own personalities. It seems to me that discovering these areas, that are indeed self toxic, can be tricky. They can be masked with good intentions, or even more difficult to look through, masked with hurts done to us… Continue reading →
Stirring My Soul
1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws; and I laid food before them. Continue reading →
Super Me
They tell us the first five years are the most important. We’ve got five years to help our babies connect as many of the neurons in their little brains as possible. As usual, a lot of what they say could invite a good dose of panic into parenting… do we all need to be superheroes?
