After 15 months of living in state of flux, we finally completed on the sale of our house in Chester on Friday last week. It was a bittersweet moment when I received the telephone call from our solicitor telling us that we had completed. We were no longer owners of the home that has housed …
Home is where we practise gratitude in the ordinary, where we nurture our families, and where we remind ourselves that God’s goodness is still all around us. One of the small yet meaningful ways I mark this season is by showering our home with autumnal touches—simple decorations that speak of warmth, abundance, and the comforting …
It’s 5am on the first morning in our new home and I am sitting in the conservatory, my hands cupped around a steaming mug of tea, watching a badger gorge on bird seed from the feeder he has tipped over and raided. I move to re-adjust to a more comfortable position, alerting the badger to …
Materialism is an ever-constant assault on our senses. It’s everywhere. All the time. Trying to convince us that happiness and contentment can be bought. I was scrolling through my archives and found this post that I wrote in 2015. I couldn’t help but think how much pressure to ‘have more to have happiness’ has increased …
For the Christian woman who longs to return to a life of peace, purpose, and grace I walked past a quilt top that I first pieced together in 2017. It still is not finished! I have started hand quilting the top but the fact that it has taken me 8 years to get to this …
I am an old soul and often feel like I have been planted in the wrong time in history. I would have been happy to not have the pressures of modern technology and all that they bring. To see mans lust for power, money and other things spewed out morning, noon, and night over the …
It’s been longer than I had intended since being here. I’ve thought about it a thousand times but March turned out to be a very busy and disruptive month. You see, our house sale fell through yet again! Second time! This time, the person who was buying our buyers house pulled out, as a result, …
