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on showing up

March 7, 2017 By Thelma Nienhuis

Eight months ago I was in crisis. My doctor threatened to make me take a leave of absence in July. By August, my anxiety medications were maxed and barely managing my almost-constant panic attacks. I was supposed to set up an appointment with a counsellor but couldn’t. My friends were expressing deep and valid concerns. […]

Filed Under: encouragement, faith, family, friends, hope, light, perspective, trust, truth

admissions {apologies}

November 5, 2013 By Thelma Nienhuis Leave a Comment

I’ve been quiet of late. The consistent blogging some of you came to expect just fell off the edge of the earth and was gobbled by some violent sea monster of folk lore. You probably didn’t notice. Oh, and by ‘of late’, I mean a year. More than a year. My last bout of consistent […]

Filed Under: friends, grace, Infertility, joy, peace, thanksgiving, voice, writing

Some Kind of Miracle

September 3, 2013 By Thelma Nienhuis Leave a Comment

We were having coffee on the waterfront, the remnants of a tiger brownie and apple torte between us. We cupped hot java as we watched the lights of the pier dance on the water. The sun was setting and the dark water glistened with flecks of gold and crimson. “Sometimes I feel too selfish,” she said […]

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Belonging

July 11, 2012 By Thelma Nienhuis Leave a Comment

In the past eight years I have been to two baby showers. Two. Dos. Deux. The first was for a friend who had twin boys at 28 weeks. I spent most of my time trying not to cry, refusing to play the ‘shove-your-nose-in-the-diaper-to-guess-what-kind-of-mushed-up-chocolate-is-inside’ game, and hiding in the back seat of a maroon Jeep, my […]

Filed Under: dreams, family, friends, grace, Infertility, joy, miracle, thanksgiving

The ‘E’s Have It

June 8, 2012 By Thelma Nienhuis Leave a Comment

This is a shout-out to a particular group of people. They’re a consistent, faithful bunch, but some days we’re all a bit dense and fail to appreciate how brilliant and necessary they are. I’m calling these people the exasperated encouragers. Exasperate means to ‘irritate intensely’. (So far, this is delightfully alliterative and therefore, very promising.) […]

Filed Under: encouragement, family, friends, love, thanksgiving

Dipping A Toe In

May 21, 2012 By Thelma Nienhuis 1 Comment

Hi there. I want to brush past the obvious questions regarding my ongoing silence here in this space and not offer up some single-post-all-inclusive justification or explanation about why I went away and what I was doing. Let’s just say it involved my head and some sand… my heart and a hammer. No, really. Trust […]

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Week 18

February 19, 2012 By Thelma Nienhuis Leave a Comment

Happy almost end-of-Saturday, friends! I hope you had a great day! This is our first attempt at the biweekly frequency and from the feedback I received I believe this is the new preference so we shall try it for a bit. Hopefully it will allow a few more of you to pop by and link […]

Filed Under: friends, fun, photos, Scavenger Saturday

Week 17

February 5, 2012 By Thelma Nienhuis Leave a Comment

I am sitting here listening to Peter Furler and digesting my amazing birthday dinner, at the same time enjoying your photos for the week. Thanks so much for continuing to play along! I find that some weeks I completely forget that I’m also supposed to take photos, so when I see your comments come in […]

Filed Under: family, friends, fun, photos, Scavenger Saturday

Week 16

January 29, 2012 By Thelma Nienhuis Leave a Comment

Happy Saturday, friends! I hope you had as enjoyable day as we did here. It was a rather blustery day… perfect for running minimal errands, enjoying a lovely dinner with family and generally staying in where it is warm. And enjoying the ones you love. And, of course, to take a few photos. I actually […]

Filed Under: family, friends, fun, memory, photos, Scavenger Saturday

Week 15

January 15, 2012 By Thelma Nienhuis Leave a Comment

Well shoot. I’m all behind here. And from the look of the contributions, you all had busy weeks as well. According to my father-in-law, that’s a good thing because it keeps us out of trouble. I will be digging into the archives today… A silhouette? This would be The Len watching them prep our plane […]

Filed Under: family, friends, fun, photos, Scavenger Saturday

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