Many moons ago (about 27yrs) I was blessed to be in a work role that I knew the lord had orchestrated for me and he set this phrase alight in my heart at the time… ‘Bloom where you are planted’ Here to the right is the ‘Mary Engelbright’ picture I sat on my desk at the time to remind me of God’s goodness. Once again, in this season, the Lord is highlighting this same phrase within me, and I was captured by the fact that when we choose to step up and say ‘YES’ for what God pu

The road ahead is there but when curve balls get thrown at you, we need to keep focused on the Cross and on Jesus to get us to where we are going! The way ahead may seem simple enough but there may be a hidden dip beyond the horizon or a pothole that we can’t see from here…. Either way we still need to keep our eyes on Him. My current goal is to get my feet planted into and thru the door of my new accommodation and feel like I can ‘nest’ – do my home maker thing and feel comf

Here in the southern hemisphere, we tend to enjoy celebrating ‘Christmas in July’ because we get to eat and enjoy European hot seasonal foods when it is our wintertime! Instead of our normal Christmas fare which is generally salads, sea foods and cold ice-cream puddings! Some festive foods are generally Yule logs decorated with mushrooms etc to give that forest and earthy woodland feel! Wild mushroom foraging season in Australia peaks during autumn and early winter (late Mar