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22.01.2022 Every day I've been wanting to get some thoughts into my blog, but life has been so overwhelming and different that it's been hard to gather enough of those thoughts to make sense of them! So today I just wanted to check in and see how everyone is travelling. I know we keep being told that this is an unprecedented time - but the reality it is. We are living something we have no experience in and in a way that I believe is not natural for human beings. I know for myself I real...ly don't mind being at home but what I am really struggling with is the lack of face-to-face contact with people. We don't have any family in our town, and many are not even in this country, not that we would be able to see them anyway, so our friends are our family. I know many people are in the same boat. I also struggle personally when I know people need help, or need a comforting friend, and I can't be that person except for social media. How is this affecting you? I know it would be affecting everyone - and we are all different. What is it that you are struggling with the most today? Now more than ever before we need to support and love on each other!! Talk soon.
22.01.2022 Finally - a new blog. Feel free to share!
21.01.2022 It's been a long time since I've written a blog and now is a good time to come back and reach out to people out there. I think we can all attest to the fact that none of us are currently living an 'ordinary' life. We have entered a part of life's journey that we could never have envisaged or even dreamed about. It feels like we are living in the Truman Show, or zombie - or a movie like that. But no. Here we are in real life - living life in a way we have never lived before. I...t's filled with fear and uncertainty as our 'normal' takes a dramatic turn down a road we have never traveled before. I believe this will change us - and I hope it does. Like everyone else I have felt the weight of stress and the overwhelming feeling of an uncertain future. But I also think that if we dig deep enough we will find that although we are forced into a level of isolation unthinkable, there are many positives that we can glean from this time. We can choose to be broken and shattered, or we can choose to find joy in the little things, something I believe we have long forgotten. Here at the 'No Ordinary Life' - life as I know it has come to a screaming halt. I've gone from out almost every day to sports, appointments, shopping, church meetings, life group meetings, care team meetings, supervision - to name a few - to absolute zero. And it stopped so suddenly that I felt I had whiplash!! But is this what we really needed? How our world has been moving at a pace that has been so hard to keep up with!! There has been a constant acceleration and each year we have been getting busier and busier. We've lost connection. Families have fallen apart. Children are so busy that they no longer know how to keep themselves entertained. So maybe, just maybe - in the thick of an awful pandemic - we have been given the opportunity to stop. Breathe. Re-connect. Find a new hobby. Talk to your family and friends (over social media). Rest. Do some exercise. Cook from scratch. Pull back on our materialistic spending. Save money. Find things to do for free. Have a chance to be a little bit bored. Play games with your family. Love. Laugh. Cry a little. Write a letter and post it. Colour in. Learn a new instrument. Binge watch some TV. Perhaps 2020 is the year of re-set. I know I've needed it. The last couple of years have been extremely painful and I have been deeply hurt. I've never stopped to process it, to heal and to regain my strength. Maybe, just maybe, we've all been handed a life line. So hang in there. We are in this together. Now none of us are living an 'ordinary' life. But we can definitely live this extraordinary life together. Stay tuned.......
11.01.2022 You are unique!
04.01.2022 And here I rise .... out of the ashes!
