Defending the Dandelion

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Last weekend it was an honor to be one of the speakers at a women’s retreat in Galveston Texas, hosted by Katy Life Church. I was so nervous but excited too. It was a weekend where women of all ages were encouraged to see themselves as daughters of the King of Kings. As I watched each of the women be crowned I thought it was awesome, each had a story as do I, My story I share in this blog, and one day while writing I thought of the scripture in Psalm 51:10 and I started to sing the song to get the words. “10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
 And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,
 And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, 
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways. 
 And sinners shall be converted to You.” I quickly found the passage and started reading; Go

Salut!!! Welcome to my new blog!! I have been a blogger for about 10 years and wholeheartedly enjoy expressing myself through the written word. I was born and brought up in a small fishing town on the North East coast of Scotland and later emigrated to the USA. I have three awesome grown up children; the oldest my son John is married to Stephanie. Paul is my second born and is engaged to Sarai, they have a baby daughter called Arya, who is my first grandchild, and is just the most beautiful baby girl in the world, and is slightly over a month old. My youngest, Kathryn went on a DTS (disciple Training School) with YWAM (Youth With a Mission) last year for 6 months, 3 in Australia and 3 in Thailand doing missionary work. She loved it so much and felt the Lord calling her to go into full time missions’ work and left at the end of the summer to work with YWAM in Australia for at least the next 3 years. My previous blog was called “Reaching for Freedom” and was my th