Mission: Mummy

Modern Women of Faith – An interviewDecember 11, 2018

The lovely Erin from Ragamuffin Royalty interviewed me by e-mail a few weeks back. She asked me to share a bit about life here and how God has shaped my journey.

I walked into the interview not really knowing what she was looking for and received a list of questions including…

What is your earliest memory of Jesus or the Church?

If you were speaking to a room full of young women for 5 minutes, what would you tell them?

If you’d like to read the answers to these and other questions then click on the image to head over to ragamuffin royalty.

I found being interviewed a real chance to do a bit of soul searching and recognizing the chapters than have closed in my life. I’m off for an extended break as I celebrate what may well be my last Christmas in Britian and close that chapter. Have a wonderful Christmas season and I’ll be back in the new year.

What chapters have closed for you recently?

Nowhere remains the sameNovember 16, 2018

When I first came to Serbia foreigners were a boast – I was asked to simply turn up at times so they could show that a British girl had come to them. There were other foreigners in the city, NGO volunteers, exchange students, and travelling ministers, mostly short-term-ers. Periodically, I’d bump into a festival lover who was hoping that one long weekend in July was indicative of the city year round. Long term settlers weren’t exactly round every corner. I got used to the open stares.

But that world doesn’t exist now, any more than the world I left in the UK almost a decade ago. Everywhere changes, people grow and the spaces they inhabit reflect that.

It’s easy to feel secure in those experiences, expect them to be repeated, to cast a place in the light that once shone on it. My early memories of sharing beds in holiday huts and accommodation without a flush toilet feel further flung each year. I know now to expect the culture shock to reverberate as my feet hit British soil too.
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Family Prayer JournalOctober 27, 2018

I’ve always found myself rather bad at putting my desire to journal regularly into practice. Prayer pages are something I feel more confident with. Boxes of prayer, lists and notes, words and images that remind me to lift specific circumstances throughout the week. While periodically I dust off a notebook and enter once more into the cathartic process of placing mind wanderings into solid sentences I had never really associated my prayer pages with the process of journaling. Then steps in Jan, a lovely lady who was looking for some help making up some printable pages. On her heart was a family prayer journal.

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