Changing Seasons

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Looking around the landscape at Crag House Farm is at times truly breathtaking. The changing seasons reflect how much things move on, sometimes so much more quickly than we’d like them to, or we feel comfortable with.

In our day-to-day lives we quite often forget to just stop awhile to appreciate and absorb the beauty of God’s creation surrounding us.

I remember as a child hunting out the first flowers of spring and happily delivering them to my mum; delighting in the summer months when we would go on family holidays and in the autumn when we would kick and scrunch our way through all the fallen leaves and then the winter months when sledging in the snow was something we saw much more of than we do now!

Happy memories!

Our lives are very much built up on our memories, for some mostly happy but sadly for most of those in our care, their memories are of things beyond our imagination.

I've learned that every day you should seize the opportunity to reach out and touch someone; also that people may forget what you said, people may forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. We are called to offer God’s love and humility to everyone, most of all, the unloved, the untouchable, the angry, hurt and the vulnerable. We can then begin to show them the real beauty that surrounds us and start to build for them happy memories which will with time, love and patience, begin to outshine the dark times.

We are in every sense a real family at Caring For Life and we are soon going to be sharing together with those in our care a family holiday, hopefully one they will remember and one that will bring back many happy memories for years to come.

As the seasons change, so we hope and pray that hearts will change and open to the real beauty of the seasons and the love of Jesus that is real, true and free to all who invite him in.

John 21: 16
Again Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you truly love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Take care of my sheep."

Tina