Love with a real love

Absolutely none of us are perfect.

Love however covers a multitude of sins.
Love is not a feeling, it is more than that.
When you love, love a person for their best attributes but also with forgiveness and grace for their shortcomings.

Use the time you have with those you love to let them know how you feel, encourage them, give them sincere compliments and offer your honest insights on who they truly are to you.

There is a saying
Your true friends will remind you of your song when you have forgotten the words…not only friends but those who truly know and love you. Remind those around you when they seem to be losing their lyrics or tune.

I hope each of you reading this will know true love , not only in Christ but people and love truly and that you will have love in your life always, especially during the difficulties and trials that may come your way.

Jesus always lifts us

Just felt on my heart to share an old song.

You are welcome to listen to it on my podcast via Anchor

You lifted me from the moet clay, You set my feet upon a rock….

All things new!

So thankful to have so many new things happening in my life since you all last heard from me.

Well, let me simply start telling you…

I now live in Pretoria, South Africa! What a move 🙂

It is great being in the town I lived as a young adult, so many memories of good times and fun! Still busy making new friends and trying to reconnect with friends from years ago.

I am a teacher at a special needs school in Pretoria CBD

I am now working at a school for blind and partially sighted learners and it has been an amazing and seriously informative and adventurous journey so far.  Learning something new each and every day, not to mention especially during this period of COVID-19

I am single (again)

Have worked through the hurt and issues left from the past and now living on my own – and yes – I am believing to find a love that will choose me till the end of both our days and that I will definitely do the same…. so if you know any amazing single men, that you think I might get on with, don’t be shy! Introduce us already! 🙂

(Yes, the divorce is not yet final due to the delays in courts with COVID-19, it really does affect each area of life, but having been out of contact and in the divorce process and living on my own for more than a year – I am truly single)

I having a shiny bright smile!

I actually started out on a business venture at the end of 2018, but with all that transpired in 2019, the multiple moves etc it fell by the wayside, but I recently decided to relaunch and make a success.

This opportunity also brings with it the added benefit of my smile being whiter and brighter! Interested? I’ll do a post about that separately at some time in the future. (but have a look on my Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157439920012039&id=662212038)

I am looking for a small but vibrant church

I have been attending my old church from when I previously lived in Pretoria, but I am looking for a smaller church where I might actually get to meet people, one where there are also home meetings and where they believe God’s word is the truth.  If you know of a church around my area, please do let me know.

I really need to loose weight – anyone wanting to be my exercise partner?

I have gained and lost weight riding a see-saw but want to get to a healthy weight now again and to stay there with a healthy lifestyle.  No, I don’t have even a couple hundred Rand a month for gym so need to do some home exercise, walking etc advice is always welcome! and an exercise partner more so! Difficult to do much as a woman on my own.

I am adding some photos taken the last couple of weeks just so you can see I am still smiling, and alive.

So yes! Many, many new beginnings – and I am trusting there will be many more ahead.

Much love to all of you!

 

School Fundraiser 2019

MaMerlie and I Aug 2019

New beginnings July 2020

Me April 2020

August 2020

Wanita and I 2019

School athletics 2020

Pappa en ekke Aug 2019

Tracy’s birthday breakfast 2020

Hattingh brothers and I Dec 2020

Christine and I 2019

Tracy and I 2019

Crazy Hair 2020

Giselle and I 2019

Us 3 2019

Alet and I Dec 2019

Mum and I Dec 2020

The bunch of us Dec 2020

Me Dec 2020

 

New Beginnings – always follow after doors closing…

Well, I haven’t written anything for so very, very long.

Life has been a whirlwind of excitement and then filled with heartache, change and lots of swimming in faith….and then…

YES – my precious Saviour as always took my hand and we are walking through the changes, the pain and the hope and every new decision hand in hand…

Thank you Jesus for being there for me and loving me no matter what.

So much has happened since you all last heard from me.

I got married…short lived as I was informed of my husband’s intention to divorce me (his second wife).  I won’t lie, it was a very difficult thing to accept but after having done all I can, I had to accept that a relationship is not only dependent on one person but on TWO wanting to make it work…so I agreed and am in the very final stages of divorce proceedings.

I have been on a journey of healing and am thankful for church programs and awesome family and support network of friends who are loyal, loving and true to me no matter what comes my way.

That is the sad past….

My next update will be about all that is Good and New since you last heard from me.

Much love

 

A time of change

A time of change….

So, we all know that there are seasons we go through in life.  The last couple of months (maybe half a year even) have been one of tremendous change for me.

I can’t recall another time in my life where so many changes occurred in my life and at the same time great changes in the lives of those near and dear to me.

Since returning to South Africa in 2007 I was blessed that my mother opened her home for me to start out from again and at the same time my mum and I had the privilege of being able to see each other very regularly and in the last four years probably about once a day at least.  It has been awesome and today my heart is aching as this joy has now come to an end and will have to be exchanged for visits on the phone, what’s app etc as my mum retired and is moving away…..many hours’ drive away….I will so miss our coffee and chats mommy!!

My hubby and I moved to Bela Bela as my husband took on an opportunity we believed to be a great one!  So we are living in a huge home on a farm and we are loving the farm life!  The move has taken a long while and we are still settling into the home, still unpacking some boxes but loving the animals and plants!

So even the few coffee-dates with my younger sister is now also a thing of the past, but I will be sure to invite her for weekends away 😉

Necessitated by our move, I gave up teaching at Laerskool Piet Hugo Primary School, where I have been teaching since 2014….not long I hear you say….but when you are involved with children and in their lives it is a loooooong time!  I miss my learners, “my kids” they were amazing when I left and I still hear from many of them on a daily basis…how can one simply say goodbye?  I am always wondering how they are doing at school and what new achievements they have accomplished etc.

So for now, I am a “home executive” until I find a position which will be both fulfilling and financially worth it.  While I am here I enjoy preparing healthy dinners for my hubby and seeing to our daily needs.

My sister Kim, also left for the USA yesterday…..second sister to start a new life over there.

People, change is necessary but not always easy. There is ONE constant in life and that for me is the Love of my God.

May each of us entering a new season in life find it to be fulfilling and may we overcome all challenges with the ease and grace we imagine ourselves doing so.  May we be led towards our destinies by the Holy Spirit.

Blessings to all of you I know, love and miss.

LivingFragrance

Married to my He-man

It seems I have lost some posts…so I will try and re-do this one.

On 9 July 2016 I married my He-Man, the love of my life! The man God had sent my way and I am blessed beyond measure.

The adventures are different and I am always being protected, loved, honored and always treated as a lady.  Thank you my love for the hubby you are to me.

Jaloesie

Soos gewoonlik dink ek oor my dag se gebeure en skielik voel ek hartseer

….meisiemens jy is nie op my Facebook nie maar ek hoop dat iemand jou eendag sal kan help sien:
Jy is nog jonk en ek is veel ouer….almal kan dit sien….dat vriendelikheid ens jou egter so ontsenu day jy die “obvious” moet uitwys spreek boekdele oor jou onsekerheid.

Eers was ek omgekrap en toe besef ek weereens gebroke mense probeer altyd om ander te breek….mens oorleef nie en bly glimlag soos ek as jy so maklik breek nie…

My vriendin

My vriendin.

 

Ware woorde die, dankie Helga Gouws dat jy dit met my gedeel het 🙂

Dankie Here vir U Genade – Thank You Lord for Your Grace

As ek so luister en lees na soveel mensies wat soveel seer het….en so sukkel om te laat gaan van die seer wat ander hul aangedoen het….wat sukkel om nie elke nuwe mens wat hul ontmoet deur die gebreekte bril van ander se oortredings teen hulle te sien nie maar eerder elkeen deur vars nuwe oë te sien kan ek nie anders nie as om net weereens te besef hoe Groot en Wyd en Diep die Hemelse Vader se genade is….Dankie Here dat U my deur U genade nog elke keer na die seer weereens die moed gee om met ‘n oop hart en gemoed nuwe mensies te ontmoet en elkeen ‘n skoon kans te gee om hulself te wees….dankie ook vir die lewenslesse wat my leer om oop oë in die lewe rond te loop en te sien waar ander ‘n mens probeer bedrieg…dankie dat uit al die seer van my verlede ek iets goed gekry het…om te kan onderskei tussen waarheid en leuens….ek kan net hoop dat ek dit al meer sal reg kry om te onderskei maar dat ek eerder iemand ‘n kans sal gee as om hul weg te stoot sonder ‘n rede.

When I listen and read about all the people who are still so hurt…..and are struggling to let go of past hurts caused by people from their past….they are struggling not to see new people they meet through the broken spectacles of past hurts, struggling to see new people through fresh eyes I can only recognise again how Great and Deep and Wide God’s Mercy and Grace is…..Thank you Lord for enabling me by your grace and mercy to open up my heart again each time after being hurt to meet new people and allow them to show me who they are….thank you also for the ability to recognise truth and lies….that from all the hurt in my past I have this one gift…to discern between truth and lies (sometimes much easier than others) ….I can only hope that I will get better at discerning the difference and rather give someone an opportunity than to push people away without a real reason….

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