The last week of June 2015 I was on the phone with “Chantilly.” The conversation went something like this: “Nana, you know what Phe-Phe asked me?” “No.” I replied, going along with the pretence. After all, “Princess Phe-Phe” was only a day or so old. I figured the Mama would know what …
Sunset, Sunday, 3rd January 2016 Sunset from our balcony, Sunday, 3 January 2016 The tradition of making resolutions at the beginning of a New Year is so common that I’ve just always accepted it as a part of our culture, without ever wondering about its origin. The common acceptance that, even with the best …
Today marks the start of a new year. Yet it is a day like any other day—laundry needs washing, food needs cooking, and the dog still needs taken out several times a day. Since we live on the first floor (that’s 2nd floor in America), it requires a trip down the stairs and a …
The Pattern So now that December is more than half over, and Christmas Eve is a week away, I think I’ll just catch up with the news from November. In late October and early November I was busy sewing. In 2013 I made a wall hanging for St. Mary’s Christmas Fayre. The …
The Reader: Merciful Father Response: Hear our Prayer Our Father, You, Who ever loves us, invite us to call you “Abba”, “Daddy”. We are amazed and humbled by Your grace and mercy. Through the blood of Your Son we are freed from our sins and called into Your kingdom to be a royal race, and …
This prayer was written for the Family Worship on Sunday, 15th November 2015: Reader: Lord, in Your mercy Response: Hear our prayer Our Heavenly Father, thank You for letting us freely come here today to worship you. Teach us how to make room for you in our minds and hearts every day—through being quiet, reading …
There are times when our vision is limited. Common imagination probably thinks about blackness inhibiting us from seeing things–a moonless night, an unlit cave, a closed up room with undrawn curtains. But there can be “white-blindness”–thick, cold, fog seeping with dampness. Today we could not see across the street, let along down the road. These …
What about Job’s wife? “And the Lord said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with loathsome and painful sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a piece …
“Your apple tree looks loaded!” I said to Mrs. B about two weeks ago. “There are lots on the ground. But if you want to pick some, please help yourself. Mr. B. and I will be away, but “Maverick” can use the ladder to get up in the tree to pick all you …
Bloom where I’m planted? Walking is a mandatory activity now that Maisy is in my life. That’s because our flat (apartment) is on the first floor and requires that I take her down stairs to get outside. Just to clarify—in Britain we live on the first floor, because below us is the ground floor. …