Things Too Wonderful

Would you believe that my seven year old daughter had never seen a hedgehog before!  Squirrels we have in abundance.  Mice - too many!  Bats and foxes are common: she watches them from her bedroom window, but for some reason we had been woefully short on hedgehogs… until tonight.

I was washing up when I first saw him, waddling across the lawn as if out for a Sunday stroll.  Of course I shouted the kids straight away, and my son was first on the scene to give this strange creature a cursory glance before he said “Great, Mum” and returned to his computer game.  My daughter - the wildlife enthusiast, who has desperately wanted to see a ‘real’ hedgehog ever since she saw one in a picture book - was slower in coming down from her bedroom and arrived just as he disappeared under a thick holly bush. Continue Reading »

My young daughter had her first experience of The Deep End this weekend.

Not that she hasn’t been swimming before: but the pool we regularly go to is one depth all the way across, so she can stand up.  This weekend she opted to join in my son’s ‘Stupid O’Clock’ (7am) Triathlon training in a different pool.  She set off quite happily doing a slightly wonky front crawl, but stopped abruptly halfway across and when the coach walked back to see what the problem was, she informed him in no uncertain terms: “That end’s deep.  I don’t go deep.” Continue Reading »

God speaks in so many different ways.  Probably because we hear Him in so many different ways!  Part of my role in our Church is helping people learn how to hear and know the voice of God, and I love that when people open up and expect to hear Him they always do!

The wonderful thing about God is that He is the best communicator in the universe and He knows exactly how each of us hears Him best.

Think about trying to direct someone to a place they have never been before.  My husband likes to know the road numbers (I think that’s a man thing!), my Mum likes landmarks to guide her, while my Dad just needs to listen to the directions and he will memorise the ‘first left, third right’ etc.  I like to see a map and fix it in my mind before I set off… We all tend to have a best way of receiving communication.

And God understands that! Continue Reading »