Have you ever said yes to something that realistically you can’t do? Two weeks ago, I said ‘of course I could write something about light on one hundred candles’. It didn’t take long for me to realise that there was no way I could write on tiny candles with my shaky hands. I did find…

I noticed the final leaf hanging on for dear life on a birch tree in our garden. Do you ever feel like that? Someone once described themselves as ‘ hanging on by my fingertips’. Not great then.

This is where I live these days: when you can’t manage things, you either end up doing nothing or doing something ‘instead’. That can be as good as the other impossible option, but mostly it takes more positivity and perseverance. Right now, ‘instead’ of driving my son to his piano lesson, I am sitting under…

There is a prayer I read every day that talks about the God of life and colour. Of course, He can be in the mundane and dull too!

I read a joke this morning that had me chuckling all day. It wasn’t that funny so I’ll not re-tell it but the principal is true: laughing at the start of the day is much better than crying When I look back on potentially hard times, I can remember the funny gems that glimmer in…

Are waiting for you. So I’m out the other side of our trip to Rome. Sadly, the reality I thought I was prepared for was worse than I expected. The cobbled streets were almost impossible to get across on my wheelchair, and some sights were out of reach this time  I was so thankful that…

When I was a little girl, my mum used to read me a tiny book called ‘The Flowery Umbrella’. It was narrated by a wee girl who imagined all the things she could do if she had a flowery umbrella. Like give an ice-cream to all the children in the world or float across oceans…

I  watched a dove sitting by itself on a lamp post for at least fifteen minutes. Eventually it flew off, clearly giving up on another dove coming to perch beside it. Do you ever wish that someone would come sit with you when you’re at a low moment?

Our dog is addicted to sunny spots. If left alone, she will invariably be found on the sofa if that’s where the sunlight falls. I watched her looking out the window at the sky and then searching the room for the brightest place to be. Do you think it would help if we were a…

I have faced a number of lonely moments, as you all have. Last Friday morning I was having an MRI and although I could sometimes glimpse the tops of the radiographers’ heads behind the glass, I was by myself. But! I reminded myself that, if we believe, God is always with us  I forgot that…