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Category Archives: Ramblings
The Awakening…
So, I’ve had my first trial with Adobe Voice, recording one of my poems. One day I’d love to record them with original backing music but the choice on Adobe ain’t too bad! Perhaps I’ll get my songs polished up … Continue reading
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Tagged aloneness, awakening, depression, faith, finding God, God's presence, loneliness, searching, seeking, spirituality
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Depression (Part 5) – Light for each step…
It’s been a little while since I’ve written about how my journey is unfolding. I think that is, in part, due to those days that I have felt so sapped of energy that there has been little left to put … Continue reading
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Tagged abiding, antidepressants, Cageless Birds, comforter, counselling, counsellor, darkness, depression, enabler, faith, friendship, God's presence, grief, health, Holy Spirit, hope, hypothyroid, Invitation, Jonathan David Helser, journey, levothyroxine, light, love, Melissa Helser, mental health, Molly Skaggs, pain, patience, recovery, resting, SSRI, support, thyroxine, trust, trusting God, under active thyroid
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In memory of my sister, Chloe Rose…
Today, 3 March, is my sister’s birthday. Chloe Rose was three years older than me. Today she would have been 34. I never met Chloe, as she died before I was born. She died in fact, at just six weeks … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, bereavement, birthday, Chloe Rose, cot death, death, dog rose, eternity, Father's love, God's love, grieving, heaven, hope, life, longing, loss, mourning, poetry, SIDS, sisters
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Hope… (now that’s better!)
I woke up this morning with a picture of ‘hope’ being this future concept that I needed to somehow bring in to the here and now. The image I got was like someone with a lasso or a fishing rod(!) … Continue reading
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Tagged A Time to Gather, Catherine De Vinck, death, depression, Easter, eternity, faith, God speaking, heaven, home, hope, incarnation, Jesus, joy, kingdom of God, kite, Lent, life, life in its fullness, longing, now and not yet, poetry, Presence of God, revelation, separation, soaring, the cross
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Depression (Part 4) – Love wants to absorb pain…
Love wants to absorb pain. On Friday morning my son fell and hit his head against some shelves. I was in the next door room and I could tell from his cry that he was really hurting. I ran to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abba, abiding, anti-depressants, blue, community, confused, counselling, demotivated, depressed, depression, faith, fatigue, fear, feeling down, God, God's presence, healing, heartache, heaven, hope, hopelessness, illness, Jesus, joy, longing, low, mental health, mood, motherhood, pain, parenting, past wounds, personality, psychotherapy, sad, sharing, spirituality, stressed, suffering, the cross, tiredness, trusting God, Vulnerability, weakness, weariness, wholeness
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Depression (Part 3) – Am I depressed or aren’t I?! Do I need help or don’t I?!
This is a minefield! I went to bed last night feeling all at sea. I have been doing so much thinking & sorting of threads & thoughts (or attempts at sorting) and I suppose the thing I feel as though … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, confused, demotivated, depressed, depression, faith, fatigue, feeling down, low, mental health, mood, motherhood, parenting, stressed, tiredness
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Depression (Part 2) – So what now?
The next day, on Thursday, I sent an email out to friends. I owed them an update on our son’s progress anyway and I thought I would let them know that I was in a bit of a ‘dip’ myself. … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-depressants, community, depression, faith, God, healing, health, heaven, home, hope, hopelessness, life, longing, love, marriage, mental health, pain, parenting, past wounds, personality, sharing, spirituality, stress, Vulnerability, weakness
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Depression (Part 1) – Isn’t it that simple?
On Wednesday evening, Eddie asked me how I was. I didn’t know how to answer the question at first. I always feel so silly and self-conscious when I start talking about feeling ‘down’. When I get in to proper ol’ … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-depressants, children's health, depression, despair, down, faith, family life, fatigue, happiness, health, hopelessness, longing, love, low mood, marriage, mental health, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, slump, the blues, tiredness, unhappiness, uselessness, wellbeing
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Guest Blog – My sister shares…
Originally posted on thecobsays:
Jacob is my big brother. I’m so pleased that he has decided to board the ‘blogosphere’ & begin to share his thoughts, ‘cobservations’ & musings on everyday life. I know I will enjoy keeping an eye…
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The Lord himself goes before you…
Today… At the gates of a new day I stand He will meet me here; this I do know He will take my hand and He will lead me And I, His child, weak as I am, will follow… Though … Continue reading
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Tagged answered prayer, bereavement, death, eternity, faith, God, grief, grieving, heaven, hope, Lilias Trotter, loss, New year, poetry, promises, reality, sadness, song, sorrow, the blossoming soul, Today, tomorrow, trust, trusting God
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Participants in Victory…
“Mum, how do you define sin?” “Son, whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, what takes away your relish for spiritual things, in short if anything exceeds the authority and the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, faith, reconciliation, redemption, refinement, religion, restoration, sanctification, sin, sinfulness, truth, victory
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the broken heart is the healed heart…
Could it be that all our life with God is a lesson in love? That during those times when it can be so easy to question where He is because of the pain we are feeling, in actual fact He … Continue reading
Oh, Christmas… Oh, Jesus…
“God’s will was that though Christ was rich, yet for your sake he became poor” ~ from John Piper’s Advent readings, Good News of Great Joy. …Jesus, sharing unity with God the Father, had the same power, authority and nature … Continue reading
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On Father’s Day…
A dear friend of mine shared this verse on her Facebook profile, with Father’s Day in mind: “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families…” ~ Psalm … Continue reading
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…magnificent
Something surely has got to give, something surely has got to shift. But haven’t we been saying that for years? Waiting for something to change, hoping for something to bring about a breakthrough, praying for it to be so. Waiting, … Continue reading
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Embracing life…
Just two days ago I was telling a friend that I was struggling with embracing life at the moment – a sad thought, given that I am blessed with so much. But it can happen to us all, can’t it? … Continue reading
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The beauty of love is found in sacrifice…
The beauty of love is found in sacrifice. It is in the act of giving something held most dear that we best demonstrate our love to others. God did this for us through sending his own dear son, Jesus, to … Continue reading
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Though my heart may ache…
Some of us have a rough idea of how we’d like our lives to turn out. Perhaps we’ve always known we wanted to be married, or perhaps we’ve always known we don’t. Perhaps we’ve always imagined our life with children … Continue reading
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An Offering…
It is so easy is it to compare ourselves to others; to judge our own abilities and gifts against the assessment we’ve made of other people’s. Whilst it is a wonderful thing to enjoy the talents of others, to admire … Continue reading
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Why Share?
You won’t believe how many contradictory thoughts have been swimming round my head since first entering this world of blogging. I embraced the initial thought of starting a blog with tentative enthusiasm – enthusiastic about writing, enthusiastic about having found … Continue reading
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