Her Journey

It's been a long time since I've visited The Vineyard. It's been difficult to know what to write about. Life seems to be moving at an exhausting rate. I can hardly keep up. I used to think as a little girl that having a family of my own would be the culmination of my achievements, I somehow thought life would pause. There would be no more journey, I had arrived at my destination.

I find that this is untrue in so many ways. My journey started long ago and it hasn't finished yet, but my daughter's journey is only just beginning. And I find the choices, options and decisions that I need to make on her behalf baffling at times.

Questions about where to live, what lifestyle to implement and how to best educate her are all raging at the present.

I realise acutely how lucky I am to have been granted the opportunity to make such choices.

But with any privilege comes responsibility. Few are greater than the responsibility of a parent to a child.

I'm banking on all the answers I need coming to me when I need them, at the right time.

Until then, I'll keep plodding on with a lot of hope, a lot of prayers and a lot of reading!


"Begin to weave and God will give you the thread".

German Proverb