To the daughters....

         [THE CELTIC SYMBOL FOR MOTHER & DAUGHTER]

A LETTER OF LOVE FROM FERN.

A HUMBLE WOMAN OF GRACE, WISDOM AND ABUNDANT LOVE FOR MANY.

A HERO IN THE SEEN AND UNSEEN......

WIFE OF 37 YEARS, MUM TO 4 AND 

GRANDMOTHER TO 6 

I wonder how many artists have been working on a project hoping for it to be amazing and slipped with the paint or the ink?!  At the time they would be thinking that they have ruined their work, but with time and a different perspective they discover that what seemed to be a mistake has actually enhanced their vision and created an original masterpiece!

As I stand where I am now and reflect on my past, I find myself watching younger women today who are finding their way through life with Jesus and my heart swells with love and admiration and today I want you to know that there are many of us who want to stand on the side line of your life and cheer you on. 

Every one of you are so amazing, strong, creative, talented women in a world that is sooo fast from what I remember.  Life today is so much more diverse and changing from even 20, let alone 40 years ago. 

So many times I see younger women beat themselves up as they try to do it all and be it all. My heart aches as I watch women write themselves off when they don’t seem to “get it right” or “have it all together.”

If I could tell you anything I would share that in my journey, I have seen that when the brush slips, or the canvas falls off its stand , it’s not the end when I take hold of the artists hand, my Father, my King, my Jesus.

For when He is at work in our lives, His hand never slips.

He holds us up with His hand.

He will use every bump in the road, to move us closer into the intimate love and caring, understanding relationship that He has and wants to have more with us. 

If you give Him permission, He will graciously show you how the bad and sad things in your life were not wasted.

If we look through His eyes, in the end we will discover a quiet, peaceful, beautiful strength in our walk through life with Him.

I can look back now and see what I thought were the marred parts, were all beautiful focal pointe used by His power for me to strengthen my trust in Him.

I can now say I KNOW beyond a choice to trust that 

HE IS FAITHFUL in all things

 So don’t be discouraged – if your heart is afraid, downtrodden, discouraged and in pain, let my experience and journey encourage you to dig into Him. I know beyond a doubt that in the midst of your pain, He is using you. There is or will be someone in your path that He needs you to minister His healing and understanding to help them through their own pain.

I know, because I have seen it, that in every season of life, God wants us to be dependent on Him, to trust Him and to surrender to Him.

This is where we find true freedom in this life , and where we find Him in the midst of so many curves in the road. 

This is where true ‘realness’ is.

I love you amazing woman of now and the future.  You are a woman of God, being fashioned after His likeness.

And lastly, use His name in every day to sustain, strengthen and guide you.  This will remind you that He is with you and in you wherever you go and in whatever you are facing- whether you feel Him there or not.

And remember beautiful one, we are praying for you and we are cheering you on!

With much love Fern  xxxxxx