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Tag: reflection
Today is Christmas Eve
A long while ago now, I read an article about someone whose brother had died,
“There’s a phrase,” she says, “‘the situation is hopeless, but not serious’. That’s how I see life, and all these things that are just dreadful. If you don’t laugh at them, you would curl up in a heap and wail.”
On Resting
What I’ve been learning about rest + some practicalities
On turning 20…
Thoughts+reflections upon entering a second decade!
101 Blog Posts (?!)
A pause for a thank you!
Mind Tug
Thoughts+musings on a Sunday afternoon.
For Siân, in the midst of her Year Abroad
A letter for Siân whilst she is still in Görlitz
Thoughts on 2016
A glance back at the last 365 days in the life of Rachel.
“Take Heart!”
These words never fail to make a sense of calm wash over me. I needed them today. Serving suggestion: read slowly.
Journal of God at work
The first month of a starting a journal and where I’ve got to!
Hopes for the Year Ahead
As much a list of hopes as it is a list of reminders of what’s important before I go back to uni. Hopes to talk less about myself. To say ‘I love you’ more often and to more people. To have more compassion and less pride. To share in the lives of others, to delight in the fun and mess of life. To discover I’m wrong about things and change my mind. To rejoice in the everyday. To remember to be gentle with myself if things get hard.
Bye for Now
Yesterday my job at Pembroke College came to an end and I said goodbye to some very special people, who are owed some thank yous. Thankfully, the goodbyes we said yesterday are goodbyes for now, and not goodbyes forever. ^.^
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