My suburb boasts many conveniences and beauty of green hills and wilderness surrounds Shops, a railway line, easy transport, lagoons and playgrounds It seems mostly peaceful, mostly pleasant The short conversations I share as I journey alongside those who live around me mostly boost my soul Baristers, other parents dropping and picking up children from … 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
The five emotional stages of my experience of contracting coronavirus
the five emotional stages of contracting coronavirus
My actual CV – The things I discount that I have achieved in the last six or so years
So I have always had the terrible habit of comparing myself to others. I have been doing this recently. You see I’m not 100% happy with where I am at in my career and I am spending a little bit of time on LinkedIn where I inevitably encounter the profile of someone whom I used … 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
Is Covid 19 the death of the church pew?
The covid 19 pandemic has changed the way we do many things. More things have gone online more so than they were before. Gyms, schools, mothers groups have all gone online. Many new apps have been built and the number of zoom calls skyrocketed. The way we practice our faiths and spirituality has not escaped … 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