I’ve had multiple friends post this week that they begin to see the first shifts in the seasons as the light stays around for longer. The skies here are already light when I wake up now, and I have to be up quicker to see the sun rise behind the copse of trees on the…
I’ve a cup of camomile tea next to me, the house is finally clean after we did a morning team effort to banish the dust balls and cobwebs, and I’m sitting in our rocking chair, the sound of Rasmus tapping away on this computer at the dining table. There are a bunch of thoughts waiting…
There’s this moment in the story of Jesus: it’s early in his ministry. He’s barely begun. But his cousin John, the infamous camel-hair wearing, honey-eating wilderness preacher, has pointed him out to his own disciples and said, “There. He is the one to watch.” And so it happens that Jesus looks behind him as he…
We took a photo for the first time that Sunday afternoon, eight weeks ago. I’d always imagined I’d do a photo with the pregnancy test, like the many I’ve seen on Pinterest—the ones where nine months later that little piece of plastic is replaced with a baby. But the two tests I did were the…
Growing up, December was the season of nativity plays. There was often one at school, always one at church, and maybe an extra thrown in by some over-enthusiastic parents if we were really lucky. We waited with baited breath every year to see who would get each part – Mary was the true position of…
Hi friends. I know regular blogging is not really happening right now. It’s just been a “pause” season for me but I promise to be back soon. In the meantime, here’s something I wrote last year for St Lucia day (13th December) which is still as meaningful to me today as is was then. May…
