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Spent a very happy few hours today in the company of my wonderful colleagues Dave and Sam. We ate amazing food, we put the Christian world to rights and started working on our new podcast (working titles- ‘stop being weird’ or ‘you’re just embarrassing yourselves’…) we had meandering conversations about stuff in the Bible, God and what on earth the passages Dave is preaching on this week might be about.Grateful as ever for these beauties. A last fairly straightforward meet up for a while. But we are good at moving heaven and earth to hang out and pray together so the Irish Sea isn’t going to stop us. A lovely start to what promises to be a strange couple of weeks full of lasts for now and goodbyes and ALL the feelings. #friendship #autumn #goodbyes #allthefeelingsToday started with the promise of a Team Cunningham day, a day on our own, my blissful forward planing head decided it would be the day to help the boys process change. This didn’t happen in a nice sit down family discussion time (whatever the pieces of paper might indicate) we did though journey together through tired huge emotions and inbetween the rage gaps we talked about quests, adventures, parts in films where the story looks hopeless and redemption is then found, what will change, what won’t, what we are looking forward to and what scares us. We then pushed through grumps, got outside, found our joy and now are slumped in front of inside out which might just be helping us all ponder our emotions about moving right now. Not the perfect time I’d planned but a muddled messy journey. (Which might just be a indicator of the adventure to come…) #adventure #planning #sunrise #moving #redemption #hopeFirst of the proper goodbye, probably won’t see you until you come hang out with us in Northern Ireland evenings. These ladies (and one who couldn’t be there tonight) were instrumental in me staying sane in the pre school years. We shared life, babies, sleep deprivation stories, hung out at every baby group imaginable in the first year of parenthood, shared Friday mornings with each other for 5 years and have been through a lot of life together. Lovely to still be touching base in the madness albeit on a less regular basis and I will miss these wonders and forever be grateful for their friendship and warmth. #nctfortheemailaddresses #friendship #goodbyes #bittersweet #ahthememories #gratefulBack from retreating. An eye in the storm moving is creating. A space. A shelter. A safety. A silence to find the Silence at the heart of all this.Three weeks until we throw pretty much all the cards in our hand up in the air and see how they land in the next few months. Routines, rhythms, location and more will all change. Walking into the sunrise each morning reminds me that this might be a good thing. Hope on the horizon. #hope #change #processing #sunrise #walkingintolightArchives
Tag Archives: sun
Clinging to Summer…
I hold off Autumns chill, the dying death, The golden, bright decay. The all encompassing beauty of endings. I hold it at a distance and raise my face to the September sun, I soak in the warmth, the brilliant blue … Continue reading
Posted in Life on the journey
Tagged autumn, blueskies, dance, poetry, summer, sun, winter
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Reflecting on the Easter Holidays…
Thursday morning that feels like a Monday. The end of the Easter Holidays. The start of new paths in this world. Yep. It’s roundup time. The holidays are over and there is much to be reflected on. We had a … Continue reading
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Tagged church, cornwall, Easter, family, friends, God, Holidays, husbandface, job, new, outdoors, sea, sun
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Weekly roundup (either a day early or 6 days late.. you work it out..)
On Sunday my lovely mother send me a text saying: “Where’s your weekly reflection???” So, for her and anyone else who has come to enjoy these processing thoughts here we go. To be honest the weekly reflection last week would … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, gratitude, maker, outdoors, sun, sunny, thankful
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Weekly roundup…
Somehow we’ve made it through our last week of being out of routine. Next week husbandface starts his new job, son2 will start at his new nursery and we will plunge into some kind of new normal. This week has … Continue reading
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Tagged drumming, gloom, husbandface, january, Light, son2, spring, sun, week
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On writing.
It’s Saturday morning and the sun is shining. I feel the need for one of those checking in with myself posts, one of those looking around at the view posts. This morning the boys are out with some other guys … Continue reading
Acedia 3
It’s the final post in this mini series on acedia (which I still have no idea how to pronounce…). Today we’re looking on how to deal with it and how some kind of recovery might be found. “We … Continue reading
Advent 20
Advent leaves us aching and longing for more. The reality is that in 5 days time we will have a slightly disappointing, possibly stressful day. It’s a day that is built up to for so long that it can’t ever live … Continue reading
Advent 2
gloomy mornings, matted grey clouds cover the sky, sunshine battles, rays break through, streams of light fall on distant sea.
Day 30
Thankful for… Our beach hut induction, sitting in the sun gazing at the pretty sparkly sea, coming home and listening to Martin Sheen on Desert Island discs with husbandface, both of us dissolving into tears at various points. Head here … Continue reading
Back to life…
Today marks my return to the world after being in exile in the Lakes for the last 2 weeks. It’s been a good couple of weeks hanging out with family, friends and the mountains. Week 1 involved lots of rain, … Continue reading
