Hi and welcome to my blog!

One of the things on my bucket list is to learn how to create a blog and post encouraging things through my experiences or things I've learnt or heard which made me think. So here goes blog number 1!

Blogging is very popular at the moment so I thought I may as well join the blogging community and give it a go. Since I am new to this it is a learning adventure for me.

I hope on my blog I can be honest, open and  vulnerable, sharing my heart and my life and maybe some every day things which captures my attention and imagination.  I also hope that my experiences will help and encourage others,

I'm going to use this first blog to introduce myself, I am a mum to two teenagers, a nurse working as a care manager, and I am a Christian. I am single after leaving an abusive marriage three years ago.  Something I never dreamt would happen but it did and I will share more another time of how I struggled but came to terms with this in light of my Christian faith.
My care manager work involves children, young people, young adults, adults with disabilities elderly and I love them all and love my job.  I manage the business but also do 'hands on' work which is important to relate to our clients and staff and I love that part too. I enjoy training too especially in first aid.  I also work with youth at church which I also love. I mostly love all I do to be honest!
Besides my work I love issues of justice. I hate to see people deprived of basic needs and love and also people who suffer for one reason or another. I love watching films and going to the cinema, I especially love period dramas and something I share this love with my daughter. I love The Sound of Music and Les Miserables. I love swimming and body boarding, I love walking in the hills and mountains and  I also love the sea. I find the sea a place to 'just be' and watch the waves whether they gently lap up or whether the sea is rough with big crashing waves. I enjoy listening to music and singing. I recently joined a community choir and I am part of our church worship band and sing from time to time.  I enjoy watching TV quizzes, history, exploring new places and new cultures, I love dogs although I don't have one of my own but I occasionally dog sit.  I love baking from time to time...and enjoy making cupcakes.. 

The blog is called Life on the Rock as throughout my life Jesus has been a Rock for me, a sure foundation. When things have crumbled around me and felt like life was falling apart he has been a Rock. Friends come and go but Jesus is always there. Someone I can rely on, something solid to stand on. Even when life is good, everyone needs a solid base. A house needs a good foundation in order to keep standing and so this for me has been Jesus. 

My Christian faith is the most central importance in my life. It impacts on my day to day life, my decisions and my choices and has an eternal purpose in everything I do.  I'm not talking about what I should have for breakfast of course, but decisions about how I treat people, how I view things, how I work, how I speak to people, how I respond, how I treat the environment and so on... I want to please God above everything else and every day so many choices. Whether or not I achieve pleasing God and more often than not I don't but that is my heart's desire. 


There is a song called 'God in my Living' by Tim Hughes which really sums up my life to be honest and what I aim for on my journey in faith.. I certainly don't claim to have it all sorted. I often fail but God had always been there for me in the good times and the not so good times. So this is why I chose these song words.

God in my living, there in my breathing
God in my waking, God in my sleeping
God in my resting, there in my working
God in my thinking, God in my speaking

Be my everything, be my everything
Be my everything, be my everything

God in my hoping, there in my dreaming
God in my watching, God in my waiting
God in my laughing, there in my weeping
God in my hurting, God in my healing

Be my everything, be my everything
Be my everything, be my everything

Christ in me, Christ in me
Christ in me, the hope of glory
You are everything

Christ in me, Christ in me
Christ in me, the hope of glory

I hope you will be encouraged by my blog and any posts I put up. For now you have learnt something 'about me' and watch out for more posts from me.