Tag archive: broken
Are You In Community?
Let me tell you a story from the book of Mark in the Bible. Mark is one of the four books that tells us about Jesus’ life and ministry here on earth 2000 years ago. Mark 2:1-12: A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They…
This Time Last Year
A year can take a very long time. But in another way it can be over before we know it. This time last year I became temporarily disabled by a broken ankle. One minute I was fine, the next I was looking at surgery and week upon week of crutches and a moon boot. It…
Go Back 10 Seconds
The screen on my phone totally shattered the other day. I have had this phone for quite some time and dropped it on many occasions. But I was foolish to allow my one-year-old to walk around with it. My sister had called and I was chatting to her on speaker phone. My one-year-old was being…
Learn To Move
Nine months ago I broke my ankle. I was up on the Gold Coast, was walking down some tiled steps in the rain and slipped. I had it pinned the next day and spent 6 weeks on crutches and not able to carry my 4 month old baby. Needless to say, this was not the…
Fighting Fear
Growing up I had the standard little girl fears. I was scared of the dark, particularly when I had to go and fill the bucket of fresh rain water from the tank outside and it was already dark. My mother would never know how terrified I was because the tank was literally only 10 metres…