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Continue reading →: Back And ForthLife can be difficult living in the present; we human beings tend to dwell on the past or strive to jump forward into the future. Today, I am reflecting to the past but as a way to remember all God has done. In a positive way, sometimes looking back to…
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Continue reading →: Connecting The DotsAfter a busy decade of getting married in California, moving to London, having kids and getting established, I was uniquely given the lovely birthday gift of an aeroplane ticket to visit my parents in San Francisco – all by myself! It was the strangest yet most wonderful of moments being…
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Continue reading →: Garden Lessons – Part TwoThis week, England experienced a heat wave and I have loved seeing our happy sunflowers delighting in the continuous sunshine! Having grown them from mere seeds in an egg carton, it’s so encouraging to see them shining out their joyful presence in our garden. With some of the dead flower…
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Continue reading →: Garden Lessons – Part OneForget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19 Our local grocery store sells some lovely plants and…
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Continue reading →: Thanksgiving In AugustYes, I know what you’re thinking, American Thanksgiving in August? Don’t I mean November? My answer this year is yes to both! We celebrate every fourth Thursday in November, like all Americans I know in America and abroad, but this year we had an incredibly special reason to celebrate a…
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Continue reading →: Slow Growth Is Still GrowthHave you ever started to recognise a behavioural pattern within yourself? And in certain circumstances, you keep reacting the same way? Over the last weeks, I’ve noticed an unexplainable pattern of anxiety brewing deep inside of me every time I drive to my children’s school to collect them. I’ve tried…
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Continue reading →: Time With GrandmaAlthough written a couple years ago, this is a tribute to honour my Grandma for her 94th birthday! She is doing well and reminds me that each day or year we have is precious. We should cherish every moment we have on planet earth. Hot buttered rice, chats around the…
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Continue reading →: Flexibility Towards InterruptionsI wrote this article just weeks before the first March 2020 coronavirus lockdown. Little did I know then how important it would be to stay flexible towards interruptions over the last year! The last three weeks have seen health interruptions in our family. Our son Luke contracted conjunctivitis (pink eye)…
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Continue reading →: Don’t PanicIt was five past three and things were happening right on time. I collected my son from his gate at school and then we circled around the school to collect my daughter from her gate. Walking with friends and holding lunchboxes, a book bag, backpack and water bottles, I forgot…
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Continue reading →: The Friendliest Person I KnowWhen I think about people being genuinely kind to each other, the absolute friendliest person I know is my dad. Always smiling and chatting, he’s the type of individual that really gets to know people. In the town I grew up in, he can walk into the local bank and…
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I’m Joy
Welcome to my blog! I hope you will be encouraged by my Christian reflections on everyday happenings, motherhood, and transatlantic life.
Joy A. Mead 