Listen Up! “Dad! Dad!! DAD!!” Four small fingers land on my cheek; they tap emphatically. “Hey! Look at me, Dad. I’m trying to talk to you!” My four year old daughter is insistent – as insistent as her soul’s need to grow, to become, to be discovered. To exist in isolation is not possible; it […]
God as Father Stories
“I now see that I view God through a lens with my Father and husband in the way. I have also learned to recognise my feelings and allow myself to have needs. I am beginning to recognise my needs. I also recognise the detachment and independence that I have used to control my life and […]
Yoda or Peregrine Falcon?
or My son often asks ‘Who would you rather be?’ questions, but this one has stayed with me. On the school run recently he asked, “Dad, who would you rather be, Yoda or a peregrine falcon?” Good question! Usually my answer would have easily been Yoda as he’s my favourite character from Star Wars. […]
A Marriage Can’t Survive on Bleach
I was a lot younger than I am now, perhaps twenty years younger, enjoying a lift in the back of a pick-up truck. Where I was going I can’t remember, but I do remember a large yellow container rattling around next to me. Apart from that, the sun was shining, warm and bright. I hadn’t […]
Look for Beauty as you Go
The restless person can not always appreciate the surrounding beauty. Does not know how to hold joy, or be content in everything. There’s no capacity to hold anything else, to feel anything, to have anything else. Nothing distracts more than the restlessness in their soul, than the constant striving, and fretting towards that which they […]
