Autumn Love

Loving this autumn light! As the sun starts to sit lower in the sky it starts to throw its more cosier more comforting light around. I LOVE that. Hands up who else thinks the sun feels different?

I love me a good slow Sunday afternoon. For me it's a time to read, to think, to enjoy and to be thankful of the good things that God has blessed us with.

Our family, well mainly Jamie but we will be alongside him....is starting a new and exciting chapter. Jamie has taken up a new part-time role as Community Worker for the Presbyterian Church....connecting with our community, doing pastoral care outside of the churches four walls and creating new ways for people to connect with Jesus that doesn't necessarily mean church on a Sunday. For a long time, we have both been challenged by the example that Jesus set before us, who went out into the world, got alongside the people, connected with them, served them, loved them, cared for and ministered to them right where they were.... wherever that was.

I so love how God works.... we left Zion church back in September after we felt called to leave and 'go' and 'serve' our community. It was hard for some to understand. But God knew all along that this opportunity, this role, one that resonates deeply within our hearts was coming to us. We are both amazed yet not. God is orchestrating something beautiful and its exciting...but it takes faith and obedience even if it doesn't make sense at the time.

So, our lives will get all the more interesting from after Easter...but it is good and beautiful. God is good.

Barefoot

Ok don't look too closely at my feet....I have "small hairless hobbit like" feet...BUT thankful they get me from A to B.

Spent some time today barefoot and outside before the heavens opened in drenched the land. My backyard was the closest I could get to nature today. I call it grounding. Grounding helps with all sorts of things.... I've been battling a headache all day and generally feeling anxious. My husband will tell you I'll find things to worry about. Today it's our massively long waiting list Loving Arms has for cots and car seats. It actually hurts that I can't provide safe sleeping spaces and safe travelling spaces for these precious babies. When you see the gap between the haves and the have nots and you hear the stories.... well, my heart hurts.

So, my mission is to collect tools to help me...not feel overwhelmed, not have heart hurts and not to feel anxious. To put better boundaries in place for myself. I'm not a huge fan of the term self-care.... but you catch my drift.

So, I have some friends that will help me with tools, I've booked in a day to spend with my best friend...but any suggestions that YOU'VE found helpful.... send them this way.