Looking up!

In the same week...

During a week of birthday celebrations and new friendships I come to realise again what I already know - that I'm loved and am held dearly in the hearts of others.

During the same week of shameful intrusion, a break-in uninvited, I am reminded of our vulnerability and our loss - my daughter's personal belongings taken away, without request or permission, robbing her certainty on the day she came to enter her tenement in the sky.

In the same week I saw her strength shine again, her forgiveness and resilience rise over adversity. She too is loved.

And in the same week I came to realise my boy, in the shadow of the man he is to become, riding along the uncertainties, in anticipation of the unknown.

We journey on, our yesterdays become tomorrows, our stories unfold!