Defending the Dandelion

Moving, Staying -- Building God's Kingdom My Daughter Kathryn will be home after 3 years in missions with YWAM in Australia, just before Christmas! She is coming for a few months before she goes off again on her next part of her journey with God! As I read through her texts about some of her friends on her YWAM base leaving and also of her preparing to say goodbye I just want to cry. I know a wee bit of how she is feeling as I've moved many times. I have advised her not to shut her emotions down as I have done in the past, as I know it's hard to deal with them but I know it's better to stay connected as its part of loving people and being loved, but what I can’t help her with from personal experience, is moving back home as I've only gone home to visit since leaving and I know that it can be difficult when everything and everyone including yourself has changed, and confusion and miscommunication can be a result.  A fter reading this blog-- http://ww...

Who Am I? Stop the spinning I want to get off the merry go round… “Today I had an awesome breakfast and spent time with my best friend, and mentor. A much-needed conversation started and continued to move into her reading scripture, giving me a prophetic word and much needed advice. Totally orchestrated by God. Let me set the scene. I shared with her my story. The today story, my feelings, emotions and heart of where I was in my thinking and being, how even though I think I am emotionally healed of my past, it keeps rearing it’s ugly head and attaches itself to my thinking causing me to sometimes over react or in the opposite extreme, to want to retreat and shut down. Rejection is a dreadful creature!  She listened, gave advice, support and encouragement, by using examples from her own    experiences. This is a woman that I love, trust, who is tried and tested and found worthy of my truth. I don’t hide, I don’t have to beat around the bush, or screen the truth...

                                                             What is Relationship? Today was a tough day. It was a day that challenged me to think on my most inner belief structure. What I believe to be an innate natural fact was being challenged in many levels. It made me reminisce on things before, rejections of before, and hurts of before, But the difference came in that I am not the young insecure and naive woman of 37 I am the established, strong confident woman of 50. I believe everything I am is because of relationship. I am a Christian first. The relationship between me and God works on many levels but all are founded in that I am loved so much that a relationship that was broken was mended not in what I could do but in what was done and then gifted back to me just because I was created to be loved by God...

What impact will you make? What moves us to proceed in our development? What moves us to be better people? What gives us love to share? If we don’t have God! It would be extremely pretentious of me to believe that the only good people to live and breath on this earth are Christians.  People throughout history have sought enlightenment in their search for God. The uses of meditation, in the doing of good deeds, in the preservation of nature, in the passions of creativity, individuals and nations have sought advancement. There are those that have left a mark on this world for it’s good, in the sharing of their lives others have felt love. It’s been said to share God and who He really is we should love at least one person unreservedly, unconditionally, and completely unselfishly.  As Christians following that pattern we may have greater impact in this world but often we fail in the dispensing of forgiveness and love choosing rather to harbor, hurts and d...

Up Too Late I had a good Hogmanay and new year but I have stayed up too late for too many nights, which has made my body clock, go way off sync. So after napping on the couch and then going to bed I was lying there wide-awake so started to check up on Kathryn, my daughter who is in Australia before going to sleep and noticed she had liked a photo, which started me thinking about my life and how it hasn’t turned out anything like I thought it would.  In the past I prayed for years that God would restore unto me what the locusts had eaten. In reference to Joel 2:23-25 “Be glad, O people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains in righteousness. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before. The threshing floors will be filled with grain; the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten--the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and...

  May God's presence be in you, ever before you and always encompassing about you and may you dwell there always.   Another year is fast approaching its end and I feel the stirring in my heart to worship. Yesterday in church Bobby Richard spoke on worship and I felt that well-known passion stirring inside. I know it’s what makes me who I am. Worship brings God’s presence and God’s presence is my greatest passion. God is everything, my greatest love, my greatest joy and Hope. As Bobby spoke I knew worship wasn’t just for me, it’s for that heart transformation that changes the very heavens, your circumstances change, your faith is made fuller and stronger but it’s even more it charges you. It causes you to think about God and His heart, His passion becomes your passion. I was jolted into focusing outside just myself. I suppose He reminded me of who I am and what my purpose is. My family is my greatest passion after God. My family consists of not just blood ...