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Tag Archives: patience
Open Your Heart / Invitation Only / Fearing To Thrive
“But what else can play in to our failure to thrive? What about fearing to thrive?
What if life’s blows have actually caused us to retreat back in to that closed bud? – that even when the opportunity and breathing space in between life’s trying times and circumstances arises, all attempts at opening up are thwarted by our own fears?
Fear is a killer. Fear can paralyse us, can’t it? Fear is like an industrial strength weed-killer, that kills everything it touches: it doesn’t discriminate between beauty or bramble, flower or thorn. It will go for everything and in our own lives it will eventually lead to shut-down.” Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged blossoming, breakthrough, Christianity, deliverance, endurance, faith, faithfulness, flourishing, God, God's faithfulness, God's invitation, God's love, God's Word, grace, grief, growth, hardship, hurt, Jesus, open heart, open your heart, openness, pain, patience, progress, struggle, Vulnerability
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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
Posted in Ramblings
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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Fact 28/30 – When I was 27 I became a mummy…
January 13th 2014 Fact 28/30 When I was 27 I became a mummy… On Thursday 11 August at 12.24pm, our darling daughter, Isobel Daisy Ellen, was born, weighing 7lbs 11oz. Her name: Isobel means “God’s promise; God is my oath” … Continue reading
Posted in #30til30
Tagged 1 Samuel, 1 Samuel 1 & 2, blessing of children, children, Daisy, faith, family life, first child, God, God's faithfulness, God's goodness, God's provision, gratitude, Hannah, heritage, home-birth, longing, meaning of names, motherhood, names, naming, NCT, parenting, patience, pregnancy, redundancy, thankfulness, waiting
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27 November 2013 – Ed’s work situation & Toby’s heart etc.!…
So, tomorrow is Ed’s last day working for the property company, where he has worked as an electrician in their maintenance wing for just over a year now. You will remember from my last update that they gave him a … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged baby, cardiology, children's health, diuretics, feeding, feeding difficulties, healing, hernia, hole in the heart, inguinal hernia, laboured breathing, open heart surgery, parenting, patience, petition, prayer, prematurity, recessing under rib cage, redundancy, siblings, stress, toddler, VSD, waiting, weariness
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‘Wait for the Lord’ ~ A Psalm…
‘Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.’ Psalm 27 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall … Continue reading
29 October 2013 – Update on hernia op etc.
So, no date set for Toby’s hernia operation yet. It will not be today, as we had thought. The anaesthesiologist has said that he/she wants Toby to have a cardiology report before they decide if they are happy to administer … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged anaesthesiologist, baby, cardiologist, cardiology, children's health, delay, faith, general anaesthetic, God is good, God's faithfulness, God's ways, heart condition, hernia, hospital, inguinal hernia, neonatal unit, NNU, operation, parenting, patience, peace, premature baby, premature birth, prematurity, Romans 8, Romans 8:28, timing, trust, trusting God, waiting
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