Prayers like gravel flung at the sky’s window, hoping to attract the loved one’s attention. But without visible plaits to let down for the believer to climb up, to what purpose open that casement? I would have refrained long since But that peering once Through my locked fingers I thought that I detected the movement [...]
Author Archive > Tricia
Book review: NINE JEWELS by Lydia K. Kristanto
Sometime ago, I learnt to distinguish between devotional times and devotional living. The writer who made this clear to me was Sally Clarkson, homeschooling mother , writer and women’s groups’ speaker. She wrote that we are to ever live before God- being conscious of His presence as we go about our daily activities of working, [...]
Should women wear pants or dresses?
I wish that someone would buy this book for me. I read McMinn’s “Growing Strong Daughters” some time back and gained a new perspective on how we can condition our daughters to the ways of the world when we could be nurturing them to be the unique strong individuals that God has created them to [...]
Ta da
After a frazzling start to the year, I am ready to spend the rest of my days baking cookies and sewing. It won’t matter that the cookies I bake may not turn out (to be cookies) or that the product of my labour of love with needle and thread will be mainly buttons and perhaps, [...]
Gusts of wind, the waterhorse and the ordinariness of Christmas.
A sheaf of wind. The Waterhorse Suite. Children’s voices playing. Quiet. I live for such days!! We’re done with the pre-Christmas flurry of carolling, gatherings, performances and gifts. Is Christmas ever complete without these? I suppose so. Several Christmases back, all we could manage were home-made gifts for each other and a Christmas tree the [...]
Through Ways Unknown
I loved this song when I first heard it while watching “Joseph King of Dreams”.
