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Tag Archives: heaven
I Come to the Garden Alone – a remembrance of my beautiful mother… Shuna Jean Jeffries, 21st July 1945 – 19th June 2020
And He became her Beloved. And she knew she was His…..And so I know, when I read the beautiful words to this song, that these are exactly the words that her heart sang each morning and especially on those mornings when she would let her bare feet feel the morning dew on the grass. Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged beauty in nature, beloved, bereavement, Christianity, communion with God, deniece williams, faith, garden, grace, heaven, hope, i come to the garden alone, intimacy, knowing Jesus, loss, morning dew, motherhood, prayer, quiet time, remembrance, role model, shuna jeffries, widowhood
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My Little Love
I bought for you an olive tree Your ashes to scatter round But haven’t found the courage yet To plant it in the ground I wanted a sense of permanence To give you your very own place To be able … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged adalia, baby loss, baby loss awareness, baby loss awareness week, BLAW2018, death, Emmanuel, god is my refuge, God with us, heaven, Heavenly Father's Arms, hope, hope of heaven, infant loss, loss, memory tree, miscarriage, missed miscarriage, olive tree, peace, poem, poetry, prayer, stillbirth
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Finding Life…
I see the cross
A new day dawns
Rising from death
The whole earth yawns
It’s waking up
Life’s stretching out
Faith’s unfurling
Outgrowing doubt Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Christianity, cross of christ, death, faith, freedom, God's love, healing, heaven, hope, joy, life, love, new life, Resurrection, suffering, the cross
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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
Posted in Ramblings
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
Posted in Ramblings
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
Posted in Ramblings
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 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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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
Posted in Ramblings
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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Fact 8/30 – My dad died when I was 7…
December 24th 2013 Fact 8/30 My dad died when I was 7… Whilst we were in Yorkshire my dad was diagnosed with cancer. It had started in the pancreas but by the time it was discovered it had spread to … Continue reading
Posted in #30til30
Tagged cancer, childhood, death, eternity, faith, family life, healing, heaven, hope, Jesus, memories, pancreatic cancer, questioning, trust, trusting God
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28 July 2014 – All things Toby…
Hello friends, It’s been over three weeks since our last update so I thought I would fill you in on news from recent hospital visits and progress etc. A few weeks ago I was reading over some of those first … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged answered prayer, AVSD, blessing of life, breathing difficulties, bring your soul into blossom, cardiologist, children's health, chromosome check, cow's milk allergy, cow's milk protein hypersensitivity, cranio-facial, death, diuretics, eternity, everlasting love, faith, faithfulness, feeding, feeding concerns, feeding problems, friends, G-tube, geneticist, gift of children, gift of life, glimpses of eternity, God's faithfulness, gratitude, gross motor delay, healing, heaven, hole in the heart, hope, lyrics, Metopic Synostosis, mild low tone, miracle, music, NG tube, Nutramigen AA, parenting, Prader-Willi Syndrome, SALT, short memories, song, songwriting, Speech and Language Therapy, swallow study, thankfulness, the blossoming soul, trust, tube feeding, video fluoroscopy, VSD, weaning
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