Monday 31 October 2011

"With you on every journey"

Seeing "Contigo en cada viaje" or "With you on every journey" on my sugar sachet, put a smile on my face and reminded me of a favorite verse of mine, "if I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast"  Psalm 139 v 9-10. God for me is the Great Friend, the One who knows me at all times and in all places, the One who knows me in English mode, Spanish mode and in off the planet mode (the most common) and the One who makes the journey worthwhile :)

Sunday 30 October 2011

Burgos rocking the Autumn look


Walking around Burgos is an autumnal feast for the eyes - think I may have come at a good time.
Further thoughts to follow . . .


Tuesday 25 October 2011

Oh so Brighton

Lovely day with great friends Kath and Kev in the land of Brighton. Witnessed these amazing sound sculptures stimulated by movement - blurring the lines between art music dance and electronics- yes I know-you had to have been there- but if you had been, you also would have found yourself making inexplicable shapes in front of a series of pretty wires. Day topped off with a chocolate cake made of some sort of vegetable- oh so Brighton :-)

Sunday 23 October 2011

Symbolic acorns



I am loving these little suckers at the moment. Hearting the autumn in general in fact. These acorns though have got some serious symbolism going on for me at the mo. It started in a contemplative walk a few weeks ago. I was moved by the sight of one sweet unassuming acorn and it got me thinking. This acorn had come from somewhere, a great old tree and now it had all that potential stored up in it, there it was, still being carried to its next destination in a small cup, but soon it would be time to become something new - the beauty of small beginnings. I put it in my back pocket-that acorn felt like me :). Then flash forward a couple of weeks and I'm in  prayer a conference in Germany where a guy at the front said God had given him a picture of an acorn for someone in the room - hmm - go on - i think- this will be interesting. The significance of the acorn for this person he says is that it comes from a large tree from which it is time to leave and let go, it is to be planted somewhere new and embark on the growing process. Well, knowing that the acorn was still in my jeans pocket, I kind of thought a) there might be a God and b) He may have just spoken to me!

Monday 17 October 2011

Clutter



The last few weeks of my life have involved the clear-up of a lot of clutter. Down-sizing, chucking, giving, shredding, ,boxing, filing, burning, squeezing and sometimes even folding (I know). As the title to my blog the suggests, the plan = to travel light. This I guess means trying to get my life into a rucksack and perhaps to avoid becoming morbidly obese. It's only now, as I sit back and take a self staisfied sigh of unmaterialistic relief, that I wonder whether the more important task is to clear out the clutter from my head. What are the familiar patterns and accumulated ways of thinking that will just amount to excess baggage at the airport and serve no purpose for the future? So now to the task of sifting negativity, forgiving, letting go, trusting, hoping and laughing lots (always good).

Wednesday 5 October 2011

This blog exists to ...

..offer tit bits and snippets of info on what I'm up to. ..what is trending and what is pending in the life and thoughts of Debs. Thanks for taking a peek :)

. . . currently trending and pending . .when will I go to Spain? and what will happen when I get there?