Every Shade of Red

It's so easy to be limited by what we see as the negatives in life. Probably because negatives are most likely to be what is shoved in our faces every day: newspapers, television, film all seem to conspire to make us think that there is nothing beautiful left in the world.

I have decided that I am not going to be sucked in by it all. I will not spend my time telling my children what love is not ... instead I will show them what love is: that our first glimpse of it comes from a blood-stained cross on a hill long ago. I will give them a hint of what it can be like when a man and women really love each other by the way I love their father and celebrate occasions like Valentine's Day. I will work at my marriage every day by honouring my husband - without being a doormat; by showing physical affection readily and openly - not something that is hidden and therefore open to manipulation by an unscrupulous media; by making sure my marriage is an ongoing work in progress, a joint construction by two equals that is rapidly moving to the end of its third decade of growth.

So I won't let just just fifty shades of anything blinker my view or dominate my thinking ...  I will live in the abundance of every shade of red.

Falling in Love Again!

I fell in love again last weekend. It sort of took my by surprise, although really it shouldn't have. After all, this weekend we share our 29th wedding day (and our 28th anniversary). But it was that moment when I looked through my window and realised that he had managed to surprise me again ... and yes, my heart skipped a beat.