Going slow. That’s easy for me to say, with few deadlines, meetings or appointments. Not so easy if you are always juggling countless demands on your time. My suggestion for you is to assign time for yourself every day. Even Jesus did that. I caught myself looking at my phone when my daughter was in…

Your immediate needs and see what you have to give.

A good view. Even if it’s just a slit of blue sky or the branch of a tree, the presence of nature can do positive things for the soul.

I read a while ago the haunting words spoken by a fellow MS sufferer, ‘nobody is coming to help’. Do you feel that way? How can we fix it?

I have spoken many times of asking for help so today I am passing the baton to you. I am so wrung out of ideas I caught myself writing a post that was remarkably similar to one I wrote about a month ago!

One of my favourite verses in the Bible is Isaiah 40v31. It says ‘but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.’  Yesterday I started to notice things and people around me that are…

I had not realised, when I complained about the stress and disruption of the extension, that afterwards I would be left with something that I enjoy every day. It’s all lovely, but the hands down winner for me is the window in our bedroom. Through it I can watch the clouds go past, the sky…

This is possibly easy to say when the season is right and the weather is gentle, but I have been enjoying the sound of the wind shaking the leaves around my house. It reminds me that I am not alone, that there are many things in life that are greater than me.

To grow. My daughter had to write a haiku last week and she picked the daisies she saw that were struggling against the nettles pushing against them. Her words contained the title of my post for today.

Or so I heard Michael Caine saying a long time ago. I have been thinking about attitudes yet again recently and have been wondering if we have it all wrong.