Life, Love and the Everyday

In my last post I promised to write about my next trip to Melbourne. However I felt the words for another blog stir in my heart and it is about the things we have broken our hearts over. The things we can't fix. The choices we have made, the decisions we could not stop another person from making without poaching on their own free will. The things that hurt us deeply and the broken pieces of that experience and disappointment of hope gone feel like broken glass in our hands. What can we create with these broken pieces? Fragments of cherished memories, scattered dreams and hopes? Well, my loves. With all the broken pieces you can create a new masterpiece for your life. It will not look the same as what you envisioned but I promise that what you will create with those broken pieces that have brought you both joy and pain something beyond what you ever dreamed. God knew we would need an example of broken things becoming beautiful and whole again and that is why he created the idea

Life has been a whirlwind these past few months. A revolving door of birthdays, friendly catch-up and shameless Netflix and Stan bingeing. I have not been to martial arts training because my work day finishes later and I am yet to decide what fitness hobby to take up next. But I am really happy with my job,it has its moments but it is really rewarding too. It keeps me busy and every now and then I indulge in a little retail therapy. Every fortnight I buy another Nora Roberts book to read. Over the Christmas holidays last year when I bought a book the clerk informed me that a Nora Roberts book is bought every minute around the world! (Amazing, right?!) I just bought new Harry Potter books and am devouring them. I can't wait to give my kids their own Harry Potter books and relive the magic through their eyes. After travelling with Alan and his parents two years ago, I am happy to do a little more global-gallivanting before that happy chapter begins. I dream of swishing down