When our older two daughters were in preschool, they came home one day with sunflower seeds wrapped in cotton wool and proudly told us that they were going to “grow them into big sunflowers”. There was a real sense of excitement when the first little green sprouts appeared. Eventually, each sunflower was strong enough to…
On Christmas day this year, whilst standing in church singing a carol, an overwhelming feeling of sorrow enveloped me and the tears started to stream down my face. No matter how hard I tried to stop crying, the tears still fell. As I stood there I thought of all those families that were suffering from…
In 1992, John Gray wrote a book titled Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Catchy title, but the notion that there is a vast difference between men and women is so true! My husband and I have been married for twenty-two years and there is not a year that has gone by that we have not, on…
In the seventh year of our marriage my husband and I were contemplating divorce. We had reached a stage where we were finding it difficult to be civil to each other and all pretense of praying together or caring for each other had fallen by the wayside. Ours was a marriage that had been prophesied…
The most difficult and challenging thing I have ever done in my life is to stay married. The second most difficult and challenging thing I have ever done is to have children. Both of these life events have also been filled with extreme joy, peace and happiness as well as horrific sadness, many, many tears…
