Yeah for the sun and sweat and exhaustion from it! Yeah for rivers and pools and icy cold water to drink.
I just told a friend that school starting has been hard, only because i have to get up at a certain time and can no longer laze in my bed surfing or reading or slowly drinking my home-grown late'. The girls are grumpyish due to school routine and i've realised i'm not much better due to the emotions that are flying around my head at present.
Weird and slightly funny how you can think you're all in control or all OK about something or maybe just even numb, and then you realise you're not as you're screeching at someone or just being more subdued than normal.
Got some advice, some wisdom, some loving care from some wonderful sages (is that even the right word?), re my up and coming talk with d.
Here are my notes which i needed to take. I can't blame baby brain anymore but wish i could. i just can't seem to retain all the advice i'm given. And what i loved about the wisdom, was that as they finished our time in prayer, they told God he could change anything they had said that may not be right. cool people.
Forgiveness is the right way to respond when someone says sorry. It's also important that they truly know what they have been forgiven for.
Perhaps a list (suggested 3 main painful things that i have worked on forgiving), not too many as to overwhelm or loose the person, and then asking something like: "Is this what you're sorry for?"
NOTE: to say these things in a soft manner is like 'soft bullets to the heart' or as Proverbs says (something like this from memory) 'soft words break bones' - that sounds harsh so it perhaps is not the exact thing that was said, sorry ahhhh baby brain.
another q to ask: So what does sorry mean from now on? or what does sorry mean in terms of adjusting your actions for the future?
NOTE: These questions or statements are meant to be helpful to shed more light on the situation for the person coming to say sorry. So they can truly have an understanding of what they sorry for otherwise it's just like an easy way to get let off the hook. Of course it's talking about people perhaps who aren't fully aware of the pain they have caused the other. It's not a way of shooting that person down or meaning to condemn them at all. It's meant to be done in kindness so people can move on ......
another q to ask: So do you honestly think God is leading you out of this marriage?
Wow what would you say to that? now that is one interesting q! And it's one that needs to be asked.
I need to write these questions down for myself, for processing how i will tackle the next assignment of my heart. These may not be helpful to anyone else but they certainly have given me a framework to work within for this meeting that is just around the corner.
Prayers are needed. Grace too.
Thanks again to friends and family for great advice and those prayers.
I made an avocado dip today with reduced cream - read off the back of a packet.
looked like it would be a cracker!
saute some garlic, coriander, chilli and oil, add that to a mashed avo with lemon juice and add some fresh coriander to the finish product. It was pretty plain, probably because i'd burnt the saute bit so the flavour was possibly gone! but we added sweet chilli sauce and salt to it and it was a nice dip! My one good idea for this year is to try something new every week in regards to food. This was my second for the week.
Hope your week has some really great moments like mine has. Amidst all the new TV shows coming back on, making school lunches again, being an emotional crazy-lady, and being HOT in the heat, I got a job. A small job working a few hours each week. Oh Ye ha. (it seems i do have stuff to say)
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