Category: 366 days of novice motherhood

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The inbetween

Place: home

Poison: sour cream and chives chips

Favorite things: wool

I only have a few days of work left and I have that inbetween kind of face on today.

It’s not a nice face, it’s a confused, frustrated and hopeful one.

The inbetween place is a uncomfortable one.

How can we wait out the inbetween place with grace?

Just acknowledge it and wait…

Inbetween is not a funny place,

Inbetween is not a place of comfort,

The Inbetween feelings in ours lives often are swept away when the new season arrives.

Whatever you’re inbetween, find strength in that which is beyond you, communicate with your person (the one who truly understands your uniqueness and strengths), take a deep breath and launch out into the new.

Inbetween you are truly making me hurt today.

Please go away and don’t come back again soon.

Deep breath

A

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Rest

Place: home

Poison: muesli

Favorite things: crocheting

Sometimes resting is harder than doing!

After a weekend packed with young people goodness, allowing myself the privilege of rest is not easy.

I think my body believes when it is crazy, flat strapped, busy that it is completely productive.

However so often the most productive seasons can come out of times of deep and restorative rest.

My problem is finding a routine that promotes rest…who can solve this quandary?

Only you.

What brings deep restorative rest into your days?

Routine those things into your diary and promote the productive benefits of rest.

Faster is not always better…

Hmmm

It’s going to take me a while to conquer this one.

Mrs V

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Endings

Place: woodman point

Poison: water

Favorite things: Sunday’s

Today marks the end of a four day camp, eight weeks of intense preparation and year long planning.

It feels sad and brilliant all at the same time.

Endings are just as important as beginnings. As this is one of my last events before maternity leave and motherhood I am acutely aware of the reality of finishing well.

So often we fall over the finish line, begging it to draw near and hoping we have done enough to complete a task and hopefully make it to the end.

Yet I believe finishing strong in whatever you are doing, sets you up for a strong position to start your next race well.

I have encountered so many people who don’t transition seasons well, who leave things half undone, half finished and wonder why new doors and opportunities seldom frequent them.

I believe a great leader, a great friend, a great character is formed and proved in the last days of a season.

How are you finishing your today, to bring strength for tomorrow?

Finish well my friend…

Tie up loose ends, ask forgiveness, tidy the rough edges, handover the reigns with diligence, let go of the responsibilities with grace, transition with detail.

You will then find yourself thrust into the new with freedom and abandonment.

Motherhood here I come!

A

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Young hearts run free

Place: woodman point

Poison: water

Favorite things: the fountain of youth.

Young hearts run free!

It amazes me how teenagers believe that they are so hard done by with their emotions and crazy perspectives on life.

I see such a different picture. The freedom to express themselves. No mortgage, full time jobs, expectations or responsibility.

To see them free, happy, in love, in lust, creatively pursuing their futures, expressively finding out their personalities. They have the world at their feet and spending my days with them inspires me towards the fountain of youth.

It’s not that I want to look younger, it’s that I want to live in the moment more grasping the opportunities and living less weighed down by responsibility.

Immaturity is not my goal, by free-thinking, fresh inspiration and loving with abandonment is so heartening.

Young hearts run free…I think it should be mandatory for all adults to spend a few days with some pure hearted, spontaneous teenagers, that cynic in you will shrink and the optimist will rise.

You will get to the place where you dream again and truly believe that all things are possible, even just for a moment.

Young hearts run free.

Let your heart roam a little to a land of possibility.

A

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Refresh my soul

Place: woodman point camp site

Poison: grain waves

Favorite things: chats with young people

As I dodge the 41 degree heat and watch the brilliance of teenagers, I am being made so acutely aware of the power of our souls.

I believe we all have a mind, spirit and a soul. Our souls being the emotional, personality part of us, that makes us who we are. I’m sure if it’s theologically correct or physiologically correct, but I truly feel the difference between these three.

I have moments of intuition, spirit lead unction that I can’t explain the knowledge or feeling I receive in the moment.

Then I have moments of debate, deep internal discussion that are bouncing around on the tennis court of my mind.

Separate to the two mechanisms in my daily world, I have my soul. My emotions. My response to situations that can bring fear, freedom, passion and expectancy to different circumstances.

Watching youth process a camp atmosphere, I truly see it is the realm
Of their souls that take the biggest beating in highschool, home and daily life.

Their self worth, their dreams, their quirky personalities, their life goals. It’s fear, it’s worry, it’s heaviness, that holds them back from stepping into places of freedom.

Refreshing our souls, is a very different process to stimulating our minds or empowering the Spirit in our lives.

From communicating to people we trust, to exercise and living healthy lives, to time out to reflect or taking time to journal our deepest thoughts and emotions. To express our unique genius and impress others with our talents and strengths, to overcoming adversity and helping another person win a battle.

These are the land of refreshment, these are the islands our soul creates.

However our world refuses to hold them in high esteem and young people especially don’t get many moments to find this necessary refreshment.

If you are in a place that is grey and colorless, dig deep into places of your soul and find ways to measure its current temperature, then find ways to refresh the temperature gauge and awaken your soul.

Peace

A