Hello there my friends.
How are you?
i hope that you're having a really nice day.
Today's weather in Dunedin is quite rainy, with hail, and there's snow on the ground.
I am listening to a document y about P.L Travers.
If you know about Mary Poppins, you'll know a bit about P. L Travers.
Today I want to talk about the truth, because there are many things, that blind us from seeing it.
It might be that you are looking for the truth, in some sort of way.
Pilot struggled with seeking the truth, in fact he asked Jesus what is '' the truth''
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
We know, if we don't have that, we are merely, just making do, or getting by.
If we loose sight of the truth, we loose sight of what we are in ourselves.
And the truth is different to different people, how we live our lives, what we do with it, how we go about it from day to day.
So we are put here on earth to look after it, to love people in the truth and to do good, not harm, to live life to the fullest.
Our jobs are different, you might be a nurse, you might be in physio, you might be a cafe worker, a chef, you might right now be at the pinnacle of your life, you've reached the top in everything, but yet feel empty.
I'm not to sure, but what I know, is that we don't struggle alone, and we're not put on earth to struggle, and you might be thinking to throw in the towel now, to really give up, to just throw everything away.
Why?
Why do you want to do, that?
you might think '' you have no idea what it is like?'' you don't know that every morning I have to go and do this job, which I really am not coping in.
My friend, take courage, because it's because of them, you are to serve.
And if you don't go to work, who else will?
some lazy person, who does only the bare essentials, and only getting by, leaving the rest of the people dry.
You are better than that, my lovelies.
Have you ever been caught out in a hail storm? or in town on a really wet day?
you've got your coat on, you're rushing around trying to get to your car, and you think that the sunshine, isn't coming out, only to find perhaps maybe 45 minutes later after that storm the sun does?
That is what the truth is, and some times we need to tell it.
Sometimes yes, other people do need to know the truth, sometimes they only need to know it in secret.
My brain is damaged, dead in places, I bet myself up so much over the years, about this, I worried sick, what parts were dead, brain damaged? was it all of it, where was it?
Was it better to have a disability, that people could see rather have an internal one?
Then the Lord spoke the truth to me, I was made in his image, with his fingers carefully molding me, and he knew about my brain, and he knows my thoughts, even my anxious ones, he knows what I want in life, he believes in me.
And sometimes we need to believe in ourselves, we really do need to stop ''beating around the bush, and stop beating ourselves up.''
so many times I've beaten myself up, because of what home life was like, so many times I've beaten myself up because of gossip, so many times, I've worried about what I was like as a kid, all frustrated, it is now that I am ok, with my life.
I mentioned P. L Travers, earlier, because she was famous writing the most beloved book of all time Mary Poppins.
She also struggled hugely, with the truth, with trusting people close to her life, she wanted, a life full of good things, so she made up a fantasy world, to live in.
What I didn't know about her, was that she adopted a little boy, who was a twin, she so wanted to have children and this was one way of getting her wish.
She also adopted her maid as well, some people might think that she was made, she suffered from depression, however she also had huge ''highs'' as well.
one thing about her little boy, was that he always grew up not knowing the truth, about the second brother. she had always kept it a secret.
Maybe it was to protect her, maybe she was in her 30s and thought that life had passed her by, we aren't to know.
But we are to know, that if we know the truth, for ourselves, for other people, for knowing God, it is to set us free.
Take care and keep warm.
Chloe
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