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Tag Archives: prayer
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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With Love – On World Mental Health Day 2018
I have experienced episodes of depression. Although they have, at times, felt random – as if they’ve come out of nowhere – I have learned that there is always a trigger for me, as well as a source. For me, my … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-depressants, bereavement, brokenness, Christians and mental health, counselling, darkness, death, depression, despair, faith, grief, healing, hope, intimacy, intimacy with God, loss, Medication, melancholy, mental health, open heart, openness, pain, prayer, sadness, seasons of sadness, sharing, therapy, transparency, Trauma, Vulnerability, wholeness, World mental health day, World Mental Health Day 2018, worldmentalhealthday, worldmentalhealthday2018
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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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Fact 30/30 – I delivered Toby on my own…
January 15th 2014 Fact 30/30 I delivered Toby on my own… 2013 was, I think, the most difficult of my life. Very early on in the year, just three days after my birthday in fact, an early pregnancy scan revealed … Continue reading
Posted in #30til30
Tagged 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 12:19, aloneness, answered prayer, baby, bereavement, bilateral inguinal hernia, blessing, child birth, children's health, compassion, contractions, death, delivery, Emmanuel, faith, God's faithfulness, God's goodness, God's presence, God's provision, GORD, grace, grief, healing, holes in the heart, Immanuel, impossibility, losing a baby, losing a child, miracles, miscarriage, missed miscarriage, motherhood, neonatal unit, parenting, possibility, prayer, pregnancy, premature baby, premature birth, premature labour, prematurity, unborn baby
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Fact 27/30 – I bought Ed a painting as a wedding gift…
January 12th 2014 Fact 27/30 I bought Ed a painting as a wedding gift… To be honest, it was really a present for the both of us. Something I thought would serve as a beautiful reminder and anchor throughout our … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 10:5, art, belief, betrayal, challenge, Christ, committment, covenant, doubt, dreams, expectations, faith, fear, forgiveness, freedom, God, God's love, grace, healing, hopes, insecurities, jealousy, Jesus, love, marriage, perfection, prayer, reality, redemption, relationships, safety, security, steadiness, Tim Steward, wedding gift, woundedness
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Fact 1/30 – In my 0th year I nearly died…
December 17th 2013 Fact 1/30 In my 0th year I nearly died… When I was about 3 months old I was in my pushchair in the garden whilst my dad was in his workshop (he had done carpentry training and … Continue reading
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Tagged answered prayer, death, faith, life, miracle, near death experience, prayer
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A near miss with A&E…
We had a near miss with A&E yesterday. After being treated at home with steroids for croup last week, I took Toby back to the doctors yesterday, suspecting he’d developed a secondary chest infection. His respiratory rate was up to … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged A&E, antibiotics, baby, breathing difficulties, Calpol, chest infection, children's health, croup, faith, geneticist, healing, health, high respiratory rate, ill health, Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53:4-5, parenting, prayer, premature baby, Romans 8, Romans 8:26, steroids, weeping, Williams Syndrome
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22 August 2014 – Toby is most definitely tubeless! :-)
Dear friends, It is with immeasurable delight, relief, thanksgiving, rejoicing – and confidence! – that we can now say that Toby is most definitely tubeless! Thank you to those of you who have been praying this week, after we first … Continue reading
Nice to be able to share some good news and progress…
It may not seem all that big a deal to you – sick is, after all, only sick – but Toby has stopped vomiting and, for us, this is really wonderful news, which brings with it much relief! It took … Continue reading
Letter to my friend, Jean…
Thank you, dear dear Jean. You have always been so faithful. My GP is wonderfully supportive but tends to defer to the specialist when it comes to talking about Toby’s feeding. We will wait to see the results of the … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged children's health, faithful, friendship, parenting, prayer, trust, trusting God
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Toby – post meeting with gastroenterologist etc….
Once again, I’m sorry for the tardiness of this update, especially if you’ve been waiting for news post our meeting with the gastroenterologist the Thursday before last (27 Feb). Our meeting with the gastroenterologist: Our meeting with the gastroenterologist had … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged 24 hour pH probe test, breathing difficulties, children's health, Christianity, church, community, coughing, early weaning, faith, feeding aversion, feeding diary, feeding difficulties, frequent hiccups, love, neurological, NG tube, paediatric gastroenterologist, parenting, positive feeding experiences, prayer, projectile vomit, Psalm 56, reflux, stand in the gap, support, testing times, tube feeding
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29 January 2014 – Progress…
I feel a little more confident today. Yesterday evening the nurses started to teach me how to aspirate, pH test and tube feed Toby – in case he needs to come home with the NG tube. Have done this twice … Continue reading
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Tagged aspirate, children's health, feeding, friendship, hospital, neonatal unit, NG tube, NNU, parenting, pH test, prayer, SALT, Speech and Language Therapy, support, swallow, tube feeding, unsafe swallow
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3 January 2014 – Toby’s op went well…
Dear friends, Thanks for praying for, loving and cheering us on. Toby’s op went well. He was seen first in the list. This time around he did not struggle with his breathing when coming up from the anaesthetic, thank God! … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged anaesthetic, children's health, family life, friendship, HDU, High Dependency Unit, home, love, operation, parenting, prayer, support
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2 January 2014 – Toby’s operation is tomorrow…
A very happy new year to you all! Just a little update: On Monday I wrote a strong email to the paediatric registrar who saw us with regards Toby’s hernia 8 weeks ago, pleading with him to bring Toby’s operation … Continue reading
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Tagged anaesthetic, answered prayer, cardiology, children's health, colic, colicky, GP, hernia, inguinal hernia, operation, parenting, prayer, prayer request, prematurity, VSD
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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
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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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22 November 2013 – A mixed bag…
Today, Friday 22 November, marks Toby’s due date and meant-to-be birthday! Ha ha! We all know by now that he was a little impatient and decided to make his entrance in to the world nearly 8 weeks ago! So is … Continue reading
Posted in Toby
Tagged 40 weeks, 7+5 weeks, cardiologist, children's health, diuretics, due date, faith, friendship, full term, generosity, God's faithfulness, hernia, inguinal hernia, kindness, love, nothing is impossible with God, parenting, prayer, premature baby, premature birth, prematurity, redundancy, support, VSD
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