And So it Begins.......................................

Do you remember that waiting I was talking about in my last post!

Well we waited and waited for what felt like for ever and eventually we got an answer.

The question which was asked was Does God want Chris( my husband) to go and train to be a vicar?



And the answer which came back after he had to go off to something called BAP (Bishop's Advisory Panel) was a resounding YES!

And so it begins time for a change time to move into another chapter of our lives.

Time for a move.
Time to change schools for the boys!
Time for the smallest one to start school.
Time for Chris to go back to college to train and time for me to start a degree.

Now I have toyed long and hard with starting a new blog to cover this new Chapter of our lives but this morning a thought came to me!

We are shaped by our past.
Our past makes us what we are now.
So for good or bad our past make us who we are.

God uses our past experiences to shape us and help us reach out to people in our future!

So there we are  I think a new blog name is not to be and for the moment I will stick with the old one.

Waiting for.........................................

We are not very good at waiting in the modern world!

Everything is instant from drive through takeaways to short snappy tweets.  Life seems to speed passed us and when we need to wait for something we get impatient and grumpy.


Whilst modern technology is brillaint and has many wonderful uses.  Sometimes we need to slow down, take stock and reasses our stituations!  Sometimes we need to wait.

Everything here is up the air at the moment we don't know what we are goign to be doing from September and we won't now until the end of this month. Now I am finding this particularly difficult as I am a person who likes to plan.  I like to know who is where and what we are doing! In short  like to be in control and the things that are happening here at the moment are completely out of my control.


This waiting is a mix of nervous, scared, excitement and being terrified!  My emotions are all over the place and I can't concentrate on anything every two minutes my brain seems to be changing it's mind on what I think will happen, which is very silly as I have no earthly way of knowing what will happen until we have been told.




Perhaps this is what the Disciples felt like after Jesus returned to his father in heaven.

At Church today we celebrated Accession (even though it was on Thursday).  Ascension marks the day when Jesus went up to his father in a cloud!  The disciples left all alone on the earth had to just wait,  Jesus had promised that he would send a new helper but the disciples didn't fully understand this until ten days later when the The Holy Spirit appeared like tongues of flames on the Day of Pentecost!   The disciples  waited and faithfully prayed to God and eventually when the time God's the Holy Spirit came and the Church began!  I pray for myself that in the next couple of days that I can indeed keep calm and patience and wait on God for his timing to be right.  In his time not mine!

Waiting!

This says it all at the moment!


Thanks to The other half of being a curate's wife for the idea!

Free Space.............Free Mind!

Life here in rural Wiltshire has got very busy

I have doing a massive decluttering session and got rid of well over  1,000 things out of our home.  The result has been truly amazing I can now get the downstairs of our house and our bedroom back straight in about 30mins ( 10 mins a room).  Kids rooms and my office still are too be decluttered but with a 13, 11, 10 and 3 1/2 year that will take some time basically due to the fact that everything I put to go out when the 3 1/2 year old sees it he immeditaly wants to keep it even if it is not his.


I have been a follower of Flylady for a while but really couldn't get my head around the de-cluttering bit but I think I have finally got my light bulb moment!  It feels very obvious to say that less clutter make sit far easier to keep things clean and tidy but I also think you need to be ready to get rid of things.  The physical clear out that has been taking place of anything from clothes to books is starting to enable me to clear out the emotional and mental clutter that I have aswell.

I have started to do councilling which is really helping me to see what is going on in my life and the steps I need to take to change the patterns that I seem to have programmed my brain into following almost with out thought!  

Clutter is greedy it takes up your time and  energy! You have to find homes for it, clean it and dust it Where as when you have space you can start to change and think!


Generally I think that de-cluttering is good for us  sometimes it is forced upon us but I have found when this happen we just acquire more stuff to replace the stuff we have got rid off!  What need to take place is a total mind shift into accepting  that you don't need stuff to make you happy and in fact in some cases stuff doesn't make you happen it just make you tired


If you interesting in the picture at the top I got it from this website which also has a very interesting article on De-cluttering and all the positive benefits that come from it

Happy Easter

Playing with the Hook

Not a very long post today but I thought I would upload a few pic of the fantastic hooky time I have been having recently

I have been trying to learn to do the neat ripple pattern from attic24 and i think I might finally have cracked it so rather than waste my test swatch i have made it into a mug hug!

Then we have a bits and bob tin also from Attic24

And finally a pretty pink rose the freebie gift from Mollie makes

St Piran's Day

Here is a blog post I wrote about three years ago but I think it may be worth repeating as it wasn't on this blog

St Piran 5th March




St Piran is the patron saint of Tinners and Cornwall

St Piran or Perran as he is traditionally know in Cornwall was a 6th Century Abbot. Who although born in Ireland spent most of his youth in South Wales where he founded a Church in Cardiff and religious schooling at the monastery of Saint Cadog at Llancarfon, here he met Saint Finnian. The two returned to Ireland where they set up 6 monasteries together.


Cornish Legend says that Piran was captured by pagan Irish who jealous of his ability to heal. Tied a millstone around his neck and threw him into the sea during a storm. As Piran hit the water the storm stopped and the millstone came to the surface of the water. Piran then used this millstone as a raft. Piran Sailed for Cornwall, landed at Perranporth beach (as it is now), and built a small chapel on Penhale sands. Here he made friends with a badger, a fox and a bear. He lived and worked at this small chapel for years as a hermit performing miracles for the local people




They are various legends associated with St Piran including that of the re-discovering the process of smelting (the Romans had smelted here but the process had been lost) Piran was a great collector of rocks and stones which contained mainly minerals. One of these Stones he used for the hearth of his fire. The stone must have got incredible hot because a flow of metal came forth from it, white in colour and in the shape of the cross. 


Not only did this make him the Patron of Tinners but also it is suggested that this is where his flag, a Sliver cross on a black background originated from. The flag is often used as the standard of Cornwall and symbolizes the Christian gospel. light out of darkness, good from evil