This is a talk I did at my church in 2022 while my mum was visiting us for 12 weeks to get to know her new grandson. It was quite an appropriate topic for the situation! My topic is ‘patience’ but as my close family can testify, I am the last person who should be…
Author: Katy
A bit about me... Most people would say I’ve led an interesting and exciting life, but for me it got really interesting when I encountered God for the first time in early 2015. My testimony is quite dramatic, with many components, which I will reveal in good time. Let’s just say it was both the best and the worst time of my life, resulting in me being locked up in a mental hospital for a while! Since then, I’ve been on a rollercoaster journey of life that has quickly built my faith and relationship with God. At a glance my life may seem more boring now than it was before, but it is far more meaningful and exciting than all the far flung adventures of my past - from working on cruise ships to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, scuba diving guiding in Thailand to rounding up wild horses in Iceland, volunteering in African slums to conservation on a desert island, being an extra in a famous movie to dairy farming in New Zealand and more… Nothing compares to knowing God is real for the first time! I like to write short stories when I encounter God – sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but hopefully always inspirational, down to earth and heart-warming. Join me if you wish…
What it means to be a mum
Wow, it’s been over 2 years since I posted! Sorry about that and I hope I still have some faithful followers… I’m just over 2 years into my motherhood journey and I feel my spiritual life is now being awakened again, so hopefully there will be more posts to come! I’ll start with this one…
My Testimony
First I want to apologize for not posting any blogs for the last couple of months, but there is some good news behind this (and some bad). You may have read about my pregnancy journey in the post ‘God’s comfort in times of grief’. Well I’m pleased to say I’m expecting again and this time…
The Father Wound
Since it’s Father’s Day on Sunday here in NZ I thought I would post my piece on fathers today, which I wrote a while ago in response to how God worked in my life to address my ‘father wound’. You may or may not have heard of the term ‘father wound’ before. This refers to…
The plane crash… that never was! – Part 2
The visas had hold ups and it looked like we might not even get them, or at least not in time. Even though I thought maybe we would be stopped through that, I kept doing everything I could to chase them up as I didn’t want to lose the money! They came just a few…
The plane crash… – Part 1
Late in 2017, we decided to make a surprise trip back to England for Christmas to visit my family with my step son, for him to meet them for the first time. It was a last minute decision and I don’t know what prompted it at the time, but from the following events and the…
My calling – Part 2
Things finally started moving when my boss, knowing my real passion, put us in contact with someone who worked in mental health within Dairy NZ. It turned out they also had a farm and required a farm assistant, which my husband could do. This would enable him to become the main visa holder and to…
My calling…’working for the Lord’ – Part 1
For those of you who don’t know – when I refer to ‘salvation’ or ‘being saved’ it is what we Christians mean when we accept God/Jesus into our lives and admit that we are in need of a savior (Jesus) as we are sinners and cannot do anything to escape this fact by ourselves. It…
God’s Comfort in Times of Grief.
I have already written about how God increased my faith in January 2016 through the death of our first cat ‘Faith’ in my story ‘Crazy Cat Lady’. She was like our first baby really, as my now husband and I had just settled together in New Zealand after a lengthy long-distance relationship with nowhere to…
There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the Light gets in
My mum sent me a card last year with the following quote from a Leonard Cohen song:- Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in. Later that day I went to a pre-arranged counseling session. I had no idea what…