my new love....

love

this has to be one of my most favourite books i have read in a long time....so much so i have picked it up again tonight to begin reading it again..the message is simple..God loves us.......brennan has such an amazing understanding and experience of the father heart of God it is hard to read this book without the occassional use of a hanky.....i have been in a season latley of growing a deeper understanding of the love of God....i have always known God loves me and God is love...but began to realise i wasnt living my life reflecting this truth....it has been a season of revelation and understanding that has brought me more freedom and joy...if you are wanting a deeper revelation of the love of God..or maybe would even like a glimpse of what follows of Jesus cant live without...then get yourself a copy of this book...you wont regret it.......

bright star.....

i watched this movie last night..about the poet John Keats.......i loved it..it was beautiful..artisic...romantic...tragic.........the movie title was one of Keats poems....as someone who studied english literature and a romantic at heart i highly recommend this beautiful story....



Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
by John Keats


Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient sleepless eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors;
No yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever or else swoon to death

favourite things *11

we cut our lawn today for the first time this spring....freshly cut grass is one of my favourite smells......instantly taking me back to childhood memories of carefree days playing games on the lawn with my friends.....

fitness....

hubby and i played some more squash today......all in the pursuit of fulfilling the vision..........must learn to be more technical as sheer strength alone is not winning me matches against my 6ft6 hubby.......must get strategising for the next squash date....



since my exercise love is returning....inspire me...what is your favourite way to work out?....

how to design a bridge....

a few weeks ago i came across this quote...sorry i can't remember who said it.....

never ask a designer to design a bridge..ask them to design a way to the other side

since reading this quote i have thought about it quite frequently....i wonder why.....last night as i thought of it again..i thought of the country in which i live..northern ireland.....and thought afresh its not the questions as a country that we are asking that is the problem ..it is maybe how we are asking them, that keeps giving us the same boring result.....maybe we need to begin asking some of the same fundamental questions in a different way...to let us to come up with creative and innovative solutions to enable us as a nation to finally begin to move forward....something to think about as we are drawing closer to elections....

one more day....

one more day left of annual leave before i have to return to work.....i have been off for a week...a much needed week of R & R...but the frustrating thing for me is it takes me until about two days ago to begin switching of and really begin relaxing.....and now i have to gear myself back up again for action.........note to self...learn to unwind faster.........