Tag: Family
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The Miracle of the Pink Elephant: A Reflection on Motherhood
This week’s reflections highlight the beauty of unconventional parenthood through various animal stories and a personal account of mothering a transgender child. Emphasizing acceptance over blame, the narrative challenges societal judgments, asserting that differences in children are not due to parental failings. Embracing love and support, it uplifts parents of unique children.
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Celebrating Mothering Sunday: Traditions and Gifts
‘It’s not Mother’s Day,’ my mum would tell me, ‘It’s Mothering Sunday’. I never quite understood the difference. One apparently was American and the other British, but that’s only half the story. In other countries, Mother’s Day is simply a day to give thanks for and to celebrate our mothers, in the UK it is…
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Seasons in the Sun
Everything has its time and its place, nothing lasts forever (even if it seems to). We have celebrated birthdays and births and supported each other through grief, and the woes of parenting. Unexpected friendships have been made. It is time to be thankful for the past, and move on to the future.
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Something New
I’m doing something a bit new, or rather I am formalising something I have been playing with for a while. Interested? Read on….
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Family Fortunes
It is an invitation which the Jailer accepts wholeheartedly: He chooses to release the prisoners, guiding them out of the rubble and into the freedom of the night, and then seeks freedom for himself. He has been witness not just to the supernatural jailbreak, but to the prayerful and inclusive way in which the two…
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G&T with God
Oh how wonderful, I thought, to be able to sit with God (She/Her) the wisest of wise women, to be enshrouded in Her love and Wisdom, and laugh over a G&T.
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Unravelling
‘Unravelling’ often has negative connotations, carrying a sense of falling apart, but it can be positive too. In fact, unravelling can be a really healthy exercise when we get to grips with the knots that shouldn’t be there, or are no longer useful.
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Advent Calendars
The same thing happened last year: on the first of December I present my husband (and the children of course) with a chocolate Advent Calendar. On the second of December I am gifted not one, but two, calendars which have miraculously arrived courtesy of next day delivery: a chocolate calendar and a tea one. As…
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Sunday Girl
Sabbath isn’t just about taking a day’s rest, one in seven, but about protecting time with loved ones, and of course being aware of the presence of God. Sabbath isn’t a day off in which all the chores get done, it is a holy day.
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