Sepphora was stunned when her father first mentioned that he had received a proposal for her hand in marriage. Although 16 years old, she had not thought the time for marriage would come so soon. Sepphora had been around men all her life — her father and brothers — but the intricacies of marriage remained … Read More
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Where is Jesus in the carpark?
How should we best respond to the injustices we encounter in daily life? There are many things I face on a daily basis as a mother that I would never have known anything about before I became one. One such thing that has come up a lot lately as I have to deal with it … Read More
San Diego: A successful set-up by a mutual friend
Before we take up again at where I last left off on my travel adventure romance in the United States it’s important to flash back to where I had been in my life about a year prior. Almost exactly a year before my travels stateside I had taken a holiday to Fiji by myself. I … Read More
What is the way through the fog of motherhood?
I’ve lately been struggling with a Mum fog. I’m not sure if you’ve had this same fog? It’s the feeling like you are existing in a fog, not able to see out of it and not able to see who you are clearly within it. Perhaps the fog is also existing within me. I am … Read More
Further further thoughts about work
I anticipated that I would write something more about work earlier than now. I did discuss all the things I was thinking about with my spiritual director a few weeks ago but my thoughts are still percolating and I haven’t arrived at any conclusion about what it is I will or want to end up … Read More
Further thoughts about work
Since writing the above something has happened. Over the last week or so my thoughts on the subject of work have taken a different turn. I started thinking this – what if I considered my approach to discerning what I am called to do in a totally different way? What if the approach I were … Read More
Work
“Are you working at the moment?”. This is a question I remember being asked a few months after becoming a new mum. My body was a mess, I was severely sleep deprived, my mood was all over the place and I was struggling with breast feeding. I felt like laughing. How could I possibly have … Read More