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…

  Over the years I have found it so important to seek a ‘sanctuary’ – a place where I can shut myself off from all that surrounds me and commune with God Psalm 63 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life,…

One of the things I love looking at during these winter months are the wonderful silhouettes of the trees scattered all over our lovely countryside. Nothing is hidden – every branch and twig starkly visible. Stark with barren beauty – stripped bare by winter winds – deceptively dead Branches spreading  – misshapen beauty – nothing…

The days have been long and grey – coupled with sickness – loss of appetite and energy – yet each day has dawned – held promise – held hope. All I could do some days was to reflect – remember – imagine the sun on my face and the wind in my hair – look…