Our heating has been off all this week – trust it to be on possibly the coldest few days this winter! So – as I head for my quiet place this morning complete with hot water bottle, blanket and wheat pads I decide that it might be better not to open the French doors – but…

Sitting in the quiet this morning I had a strong sense of God filling every part of me and the words of a song by John Denver came to me – ‘You fill up my senses’ You fill up my senses Like a night in a forest Like the mountains in springtime Like a walk…

I sit breathless – my heart pumping – feel my heartbeat fast and strong. No – nothing frightening  has happened – nothing has caused me to feel fear – I’m just breathless – simply out of breath! Thank goodness my heartbeat is strong though – it’s just that when it beats so fast all I want it…

I celebrated my birthday this week ( 73 yrs old! ) and have felt so blessed because so many people ‘remembered’ me – so this is really a ‘thank you’ People from near and far – those I saw only a few days ago – weeks ago – months ago – and even years ago….

The sunrise that I experienced this morning was brief – clouds quickly hid it from my sight – but I was so grateful for that brief moment – of the sight and feel of the sun – the colour – the warmth that was present with me at the beginning of my day. I can carry…

A transformed landscape greets me as I rise today. White blades of grasses – stiff in their frozenness – trees forming their stark silhouettes in the mist of the morning. There’s a stillness in the air – almost as though nothing wants to stir – awake to the cold of the day – much like most…

I visited the opticians yesterday for my yearly eye check. I confess that I was slightly apprehensive as I knew my sight had deteriorated over the last few months – and you know how it is when you sense something is not ‘quite as it should be’ – we always go to the worse scenario…

  I love to sit and watch the birds flying in the open sky. So many different species – so many different flight patterns – yet one thing they have in common is that they soar above the earth – they soar into the heavens – ride the thermals! I know I can learn from…

Each winter morning as I open up my patio doors I get a real sense of opening them up to God. It’s become a special time – a special place – when I deliberately give time and space to be with God. As I opened them today it struck me that as I performed the…