Older generations are worthy of honour for the wisdom they carry, the hardships they have endured, and the lives and stories that have shaped the world we inherited. During my visit to the hospital to see my mum today, I shared the elevator with an elderly couple. They got off one floor before me, and…
Tag: resilience
Good Morning Twenty Twenty-Four
We only need enough strength for the next step. I find myself waking up, or perhaps more truthfully, trying to pull myself into a new year. It feels like a tug-of-war between the sweetness of dreamland, which keeps calling me back, and the quiet desire to get up and savour the very first chai of…
Learning to Dance in the Rain
We cannot always choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we live through it. Life is a continuous learning experience. One of the questions I most enjoy asking older people is what life lessons they have learned along the way. It is also a question I return to often in my own…
Changing Seasons
Surrendering to a season of slowing down is not giving up; it is understanding that we are more than our achievements and that even our quietest days matter. The seasons come and the seasons change. Time keeps moving, steady and unrelenting. Life can feel long when we are walking through it, yet deep down we…
Fabric of Life
We may not understand every painful season, but we can trust that God is present and working with purpose through it all. When you look at the fabric of your life so far, what colours do you see woven through it? Which shades have been the most dominant? What patterns have emerged in the tapestry…
Keep Calm
We can acknowledge our fear without allowing it to silence our passion. Have you ever carried a fear so private, so difficult to name, that even whispering it to yourself feels dangerous? The kind of fear that seems to gather strength the moment it is acknowledged, as though giving it words might somehow invite it…
Kintsugi
God does not waste our brokenness; if we allow Him, He can tenderly transform it into wisdom, compassion and beauty. Kintsugi is a 15th-century Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. The word comes from kin, meaning gold, and tsugi, meaning joinery — to join with gold. The more I think about it, the…
Life Defining Moments
We are not promised tomorrow, but while we are still here, every ordinary day is sacred, those we love are worth holding close, and every unfinished page is a gift from God. There are some moments in life that do not simply live in our memory. They mark us. They sear themselves into us so…
Hope
Hope is not certainty that life will become easier, but the courage to believe that darkness will not have the final word. Have you ever wondered why, in the very worst moments of human history, hope so often seems to rise most clearly? It is one of life’s great mysteries. In the midst of war,…
Wait a Minute
Sometimes the smallest rituals provide the steadiness that difficult days cannot. There is something in me that longs to find joy in every single day. I know, of course, that some days make that easier than others. Some arrive carrying lightness, offering up small gifts almost without asking. Others feel heavy from the moment we…
Apples of Gold 