Life, Love and the Everyday

LIFE The weather in Brisbane is turning chillier which feels simply divine after the heat-wave that lasted all summer. It's cardigan and jumper season again and I can't seem to find the reindeer mistle-toe jumper I picked up at a Fashion Warriors event last year... At the moment my thoughts and intentions are centred around home - in three months A. and are moving out to somewhere new so I am using this time to do the in-depth cleaning that I was too lethargic to do in the summer. The Danish have something called Hygge in winter (pronounced hooga), it's basically when it's too cold to go anywhere so they stay close to home. I feel that I will be in hygge for the next nine months before my wedding - but hey, bring it on! I can't believe how fast this year is flying. LOVE This past week I haven't seen much of A. because he's on a contract, waking up at 5:00am and coming home at 6:00pm. He's experiencing profound work right now, taking calls from...

Four years ago when I was at my lowest, a lady from my church pressed a book into my hands and said. "This book is something you should read." I figured that since my life was in limbo and getting out of bed every morning was a chore, that I didn't have any thing to lose by reading it. So I bought and read it. It was a Christian book that was called "Don't Quit" - I have since misplaced that book because I can't find it in my book shelves, but I am so grateful that I got a chance to read it because at that time of my life, I wanted to quit putting in the effort to get anywhere because I was afraid that it would come to nothing. Today that book came to mind after my personal training session; not because I needed it again but remembering its existence reminded me of a time when I was ready to quit and I couldn't see the path in front of me. Reading that book made me see the first step I had to take and shortly after that, the darkness began to disap...