All kinds of everything remind me of You

A Family day in the sun

The Don!

We have always listened

LittleNathanial settled in the tent, eating all the little strawberries as suggested and selected carefully by his older brother Gabriel, who will now have to go eat all the larger ones!

love between

cousins, Gabriel and Ethan

picking all the petals off nannies lovely flowers

Wine in the chiller...Very original!

Congratulations to Nicola and Ryan on your engagement

Let it be done according to your Will

This is the vision the heart beholds, desiring with all ones being to only tread within the footprint, of your most perfect Will.

Thank you dear Jesus

Thank you dear Jesus,
for all you have given me,
for all you have taken

away from me,

for all you have left me...

(St Thomas More)

Gods right hand

God said, "Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves"...

God thus created man in the image of Himself, in the image of God He created him...

(Genesis 1.v.26-27)

The garden of Hope

"Naked we came into the world and naked we shall return".... One feels that indeed in a physical way we enter the world like this, but even more importantly do we go forward in such a way on our spiritual journey to our Good God. It is a path of stripping the old self/heart of stone, to create a new one and that can be a very very painful procedure... However, our Lord leaves nothing to chance and He indeed did give us courage from His suffering at the garden of Gethsemane... Our Lord went into it alone, afraid and asking if it be Gods Will, to take the suffering away... He left strong and equipped to do what was Gods most perfect Will...
It is very difficult to learn that degree of abandonment of self in any moment of suffering, indeed it can be a new bringing forth of life spiritually.It is a human response for one to want to select a suitable cross, selecting its dimensions to fit ones strength. However, the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves and encourages us ever forward into deeper depths with only Himself ultimately for support...There is no more tender moment, than when a soul goes against self and humbles themselves at the feet of our Good God and in total awareness of their weakness and nothingness, calls out for His help alone and cries out, your perfect will be done...
We never leave our little garden of suffering without being transformed, all the more stronger for it. This little soul believes we should try to cultivate our little suffering gardens, into beautiful gardens of Hope... where we go to enter into private, deeper levels of change for our Good God alone... To indeed be all that He desires us to become, channels of His love xxx

The special 50th birthday, thank you to all those I love:

I would like to thank all those people I love, who remembered me on my 50th birthday...To those who were not able to get in touch, please don't worry, as I know you were about our Fathers business and you know I would have considered that a greater importance! Our Jesus did not limit hearts giving with all their hearts... so many cards, acts of kindness, gifts and beautiful pictures from loved ones gardens... Its was far more than I deserved...However, the overriding thought I carried throughout the day was that this was the day our Good God had brought another life to life, to do His most perfect Will... a life that would try with all her heart to fill all those empty thrones in heaven and have our Lords name known and loved above all else!

Thank you Lord!

Thank you Lord for surrounding me with such lovely people wherever you place me.

Belinda and I celebrated birthdays at each end of the week... so between calls we celebrated, and got to do some real team building.