She slipped me the envelope this morning as we crossed paths at church and said, "I'm so embarrassed; this is something I was given to pass onto you, but I've had it for the past year and forgot about it until I switched handbags today and found it!" When I got home I opened what …
The very word "assignment" casts my mind (way) back to high school. Nothing used to strike fear into senior students more than a maths assignment handed out by Mr Payne. The assignments were always notoriously difficult, and with trembling we would cast our eyes over the requirements and inwardly groan, knowing there was a high likelihood …
Have you ever lost something and were desperate to find it? Three decades ago I had a dream in which I was searching for a child called Grace. I had to find Grace. The dream impacted me greatly at the time, and I woke from it knowing that if I ever had a daughter, she …
Nine months ago I felt that I got to hit the "Play" button on my life once more. For the nine months prior to that, I felt that my life had been put on "Pause." As a brand new blogger at the time, I wrote about that here. I say "felt" because feelings are not …
Yes, we are! We left home via one highway and over seven thousand kilometers later came home via a different highway. Now that is one very big loop! We managed the great distances by staying at least two nights or longer in the same location so that in total, we only had a handful of …
Here's the approach to the rock at the very northernmost tip of Australia. I can laugh about it now (well, almost), but just ask my husband...I have been grumpily uncomfortable for the past few days. It was a typical night as far as this far north Queensland portion of our road trip goes. We had …
These are my feet. This is my view. These are my thoughts... The breeze driven clouds above are creating dark shadows on the glistening water below. The cloud shadows make it appear as if the water is deeper in parts than it actually is, and those inviting depths keep changing and moving. Cloud shadows...just like …
The longest dead straight road on the planet is found in Australia. It stretches 1100 kilometres (684 miles) across the Nullarbor Plain between South and West Australia. There's no way you can get lost because there are literally no detours. Aussies call it the Nullar-boring, because of its lack of visual stimulation! Sometimes we expect …
I still remember this sunset. Captured on my phone it was one of those moments where I was awed by the beauty and my heart swelled full of joy that I got to experience this. Like me, do you long to hit pause on these kinds of momentary moments? To bask in the wonder and …
This was my guest blog post as it appeared on David's Daily Dose a while back. If you don't yet follow David, please do! His writing is always relevant, encouraging, and delivered with punch! At a visit to my husband's work a while back he sat me in the recording studio, put headphones on my …
Quietly Roaring 