Advance, Retreat, Advance...

So I have been on a little retreat, it doesn't always turn our exactly has you have planned but I love how it did turn out. I planned to write a lot but instead took a lot of photos. It was so nice to just be away from all the normal things you have to do and today this little retreat come to an end...

So in a few hours I will venture back into suburbia from the little piece of heaven in which I have been into the life race that I am in. I haven't come up with too many ideas of how I could transform my life to resemble even slightly what life is like up here in the country. It would involved not doing a lot of things in which I have no choice but to do...

So I need to find the places of solace in amongst the hustle and bustle of what it is. Looking through the eye of this camera lens has given me a new perspective on life too... I was taking photos which I could use on my Facebook pages and in my blog posts and what I discovered again is that the ordinary can be so magnificent if we change our glasses!

An old jewelry box which indeed was so special, and probably once prized has been relegated to a shelf on the window in the spare room. When I looked at it closely, it was SO intricate, the colours of the mother of pearl effect on it were so spell binding... and yet one such as this had possibly become more ordinary.

I wondered how many special things in my house, indeed my family and friends had been accepted as ordinary. When I look at them again afresh may I see with new eyes, open to the simplicity's and intricacies of the things right under my nose, at my fingertips and under my feet!

So as I transition from retreat to advance.... Lord please help me to stop and smell the roses and look at them again for the specialty that they are. Just subtly tucked away from the conscious gaze of the people that pass by, particularly me... busy as I may be!

Love 

~\Cam/~

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Blog On...

Well how often do people post that as a post title? I am betting its a fair bit. So I'm thinking I am picking up blogging again... Yes its been awhile but I have been a tad busy! Even trying to post this first post after my long absence has taken me 2 days to write. So many interruptions in life!  It feels quite difficult to get the time to get things done.

I am huge on Facebook, people say I live there! So this is a very different platform for me but actually quite refreshing cos its just a matter of spilling out what is going on and hitting PUBLISH! So that is my reintroduction of myself  back into the blogging world! If I am not here you can always find me on Facebook on my 3 pages:

Light for Life - where I share the things that I learn, often simple but usually profound. I love what we learn through our days!

Love Without Expectations - this is a page I only recently started, January 1, 2012. It's all about focusing on loving people in our lives better. It's not about romantic love, it's about the love we all need. I have a belief that if we love each other more specifically we will slowly but SURELY change our worlds!

The Answer I've Found - this is my foundation, the core of my belief. It's about my walk of faith and the things I learn from my journey along the way.

Hoping I really get into this. It could be quite refreshing to just blab on... BLAH BLAH BLAH maybe no one will read or even see this!

~\Cam/~

~Time Management & The Hundreds and Thousands of Life~

Life is hectic, its fast, its full of all sorts of things that we need and that we don’t need! I need to cull somethings out of my life so that I am not running all the time.

~Little Things Add Up!~

My life is just a bit crazy busy, it never seems to stop in one way or another and I need to do something about it. I am a detailed person so I like all the detailed things about life, my life and our life, but perhaps I don’t have time for all the details anymore.

I need to do some culling and when you look at that, its often hard to imagine what to cull and if you really can or want to cull something. I mean I’m not going to stop doing art or writing or doing the shopping for that matter… all essentials to me!

Anyway I came up with something this morning… there are things I am always trying to squeeze in, one of them is some daily emails I receive and I hardly ever read them. I dont have time but they are on my list in one way because I see them every morning on my computer.

Today I decided to unsubscribe from them both. My friend gets them and it they are good she will forward them to me, then I will make the time. But in the meantime that will be one less thing demanding my attention and the precious time I have.

So that is the first thing to go. I’m praying Dear Lord that you will show me lots of other little things that can go to take the pressure off me in lots of little ways!

We can have a whole bowl of sweets but perhaps we should just pick out our favourite ones so we don’t get sick!

Stay tuned for more on this!

~Cam ~