DAY 8 Woke up to some really bad news this morning. A close friend had suffered one of the hugest losses imaginable. Task: Weep with someone who is weeping. If you don't know someone personally that is weeping, then pick up a newspaper or go and visit a website, because there is enough corporate weeping going on that you can join - the families and friends of the missing airplanes, the people in the various [...]
if you don't know who Terry Pratchett is, then you should probably administer yourself a slap to the head. come on... do it... there, you go. much better Terry Pratchett is a man who i have never met [altho he did email me once] who has kept me thoroughly entertained for, oh since about 1983 when his first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published and 40 novels later [as well as others not [...]
DAY 7 In Matthew 6, the disciples of Jesus ask Him to teach them to pray and He responds with what has become known as the Lord's Prayer. Task: Spend some minutes today focusing on this one line from the Lord's prayer Give us this day our daily bread, Think of the relationship implicit to this request: Trust Expectation Need Faithfulness Provision Father Abundance Hope Thankfulness Enough Take some moments to think about your life. [...]
DAY 6 Task: Take a listen[s] to this song, 'I will be blessed' by Ben Howard and think about who the person it is singing about for you... and then find some time in this day to let them know just how much they mean to you. "I Will Be Blessed" [Ben Howard] Oh my ghost came by Said who do you love the most Who you wanna call before you dieOh my [...]
When my friend Deborah's post on 'What my Single Friends would like their Married Friends to know' hit 1000 views, i figured that people were interested in what she had to say and so it would be worth seeing if she was up to writing a piece for the Taboo Topic on Singleness and turns out, she was... Stages of Singleness When I was 18 years old, I attended my very first Singles Camp. Contrary [...]
On the 9th of May Brenton and I will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, although we mark being together for 11 years more strongly. Our relationship still continues to grow, evolve, settle, change, as we ourselves do. Here is one thing I think we got right. Very soon in our relationship we had a big bump. Something came up that neither of us knew how to deal with and we had a silent, sleepless and [...]
wait, what it's only day 5 and i already don't want to write another one? i realised last nite that a huge danger of coming up with 40 days of Lent observance activities is the creativity of the idea usurping the actuality of the practical nature of the observance... wait, are you actually going to do that? that's a lot of thankfulness and gratitude you're calling the people to [in day 3's Lent Observance] two days [...]
i hope that you are continung to enjoy our observance of Lent - never too late, so if you just found this now, feel free to dive in and join with us as we try to slow things down a little and add some more meaning to these 40 days... DAY 4 Task: Look out the window until you find something of beauty you had not noticed before. if you have a camera [or a tablet, [...]
i hope that you are enjoying our observance of Lent and if you have just joined us - as some have - it is good to have you along - never to late to jump on this train and see where it goes. i read an excellent piece on Lent on Relevant Magazine today and if you have some time, give it a read. Zachary Perkins gives a broader definition and picture of the idea [...]
Kev and I met in 2000, and started dating shortly afterwards. In 2002 I was diagnosed with a (thankfully non cancerous) tumour on my pituitary gland situated in the centre of the head just below the brain and behind the nose and eyes. Over the next few years Kev was a great support through numerous tests and scans and especially when I had my first brain surgery in 2004. After seeing the doctor a few [...]