My homeschooling journey
A personal story As a young teacher, I held a bit of a trumped up view of my role, and of the education system as a whole. Homeschooling was uncommon in my...
The Professional Mother
Characteristics of a professional at first glance: dressed for the role prior preparation and planning punctual organised scheduled start and end times, meetings, deadlines skilled and competent for the task paid and...
Fear – A study of The Word
Fear, anxiety and worry are words that are commonplace in our conversations today. In fact we are seeing them in epidemic proportions. This isn't surprising considering our fast pace of life, high...
Look for the doughnut (instead of the hole)
Overcoming Overwhelm Step 4 - Sinful attitudes revealed Slowly, as I spent time at The Lord's feet, talking through my struggles and difficulties with Him, He began to reveal sinful attitudes I...
Overwhelmed? Me? – NEVER!
I might have said this very thing in our first 17 years of marriage. There were the usual struggles and adjustments, marital spats and immaturity. We even threw in an international emigration....
He fills my cup
The unseen nature of a mother's work is often the most challenging. "Has anybody noticed?" we ask ourselves. "Do they know how tired I am?" No accolades, promotions, or acclaim in this...
Mother – The Sunshine Maker
A house is different to a home. A house is a building - a shelter, a dwelling. A home is where someone lives. Attached to a home are feelings, memories, emotions and...
Overcoming Overwhelm – Step 3
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings PSALM 17:8 (NIV) A crisis of identity Who I think I am, and who I am...
Overcoming Overwhelm – Step 2
The Top 5 Priorities As I sought the Lord faithfully, each day, He brought things into my mind and soul to wrestle with. Discovering His priorities for my life was a treasure...
Flash flooding on the farm
We've had a crazy few days on our macadamia farm. 480mm of rain overnight, and 200mm a day later had our dam overflowing, our usually 6m wide creeks roaring at 80m wide...