Yvette's Whispers of Faith

Have you looked at your hands lately?   I have been studying mine for a couple of weeks now.   They are so wrinkled and old looking it gives my age away.   Then I started to think about my hands, what they mean to me and how they serve me. First of all these hands of mine held my three children.   Helping them grow up, I fed them with my hands and later I taught them to dress properly with my hands.   I held them in my arms with my hands and I look after them with these hands.   I washed washing with these hands, I knitted and sewed with these hands, I painted oil paintings with these hands, I wrote long letters with these hands.   I washed dishes with these hands, cleaned my house with these hands.   My hands have seen so much water it is no wonder they are so wrinkled.     Most importantly my hands are able to do the things I need done, I can take up my Bible and read the scriptures.   With my hands I am able to ...

There was a time in my life when I believed that I would be looking after more children, perhaps I would adopt a couple of children to fill my house.   Life sure changes and I am looking after two young children.   The funny thing is I don’t have the same patience and understanding I may have had when I was a younger mom, I also get irritated by the way the children act and behave.   Nevertheless, they are two sweet young kids, growing up in a house with a step mom must be difficult for them too.   I have strict laws and I keep them to it, I don’t let anyone get away with stuff that don’t suit me.   So at the present time life is hard for them. Currently I am focusing my life on Romans 12, Paul writes and tells the Christians to keep their minds focused on God.   We need to keep our daily lives focused on God, you know your day-to-day living, your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life.   Bringing this before the Lord and as...

  We had a photo shoot over the weekend and it was great fun, I was enjoying the new adventure with my sister and mom, my daughter and step daughter and not forgetting my sexy nice.  My daughter arranged this day for us and we had a whale of a time. making memories was nice! we are grateful to spend time with my mom and with the family. How awesome it is to see how we all have grown.  

As a step mother I feel so inadequate and most of the time I feel not worthy.   I cannot imagine why God would let me be a step mother to another woman’s children.   Today I am a step mother looking after two young children with totally different values and points of view.   You may think you know what your future holds for you, my goodness only God knows.   God knows where you will be in 10 years’ time and you hope you will be were you need to be in 10 years’ time.   My only prayer would be Lord please guide me and direct my steps, I cannot do this on my own.   Thank you for a wonderful husband who understands me and appreciates the fact that I am not perfect.   I sometimes wonder if he doesn’t just want to run away and hide from me.   I feel like a dragon on fire when things don’t go the way I plan them and explode on many occasions.   You cannot believe how easy that is for me.   Other people simmer and stay quiet me on the other t...

For as long as I can remember I have been told how fat I am, how lucky I am to find a husband, how lucky I am that someone actually cared about me and married me.   So many years have passed and I kept on believing that I am fat, that I am ugly and not attractive.    Then I got divorced and I lived alone with my three children for a couple of years. My perception of myself isn’t that great I still struggle with my self-image and I still fall flat on my face on a regular basis.   My husband is wonderful, he never ever tells me that I am fat or unattractive or stupid.   He constantly reminds me of his love for me and he constantly tells me how great I look.   He looks at me with loving eyes and helps me with everything.   He basically carries me on his hands. Because of my rebellious self I need to learn how to speak to myself softly, remind myself that I am worthy of his loving kindness.   I need to remind myself that I don’t have to go through ...

How indescribable is our Father God.   God knows each one of us by name, He knows our daily needs.   Reading this passage in the Amplified Bible – Matthew 7: 11 ‘If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him! ’    When thinking of the needs of my children I know that they need to eat and I also know that they need a warm house to come home to.   I know they need to grow up in a friendly and homely environment.   I also know they have school needs which have to be addressed.   They also have heart desires and wishes that need to be addressed.   Sometimes I give them their hearts desire and wishes when they come to me asking what if they could have this or that.   I have also learned that yes there are many requests and some of them are just not good for them and I ...

I have just started work again and I must tell you I have forgotten how versatile people are and each individual can really be so different from the rest.  Thinking about the lady I work with, she is short and stout, pear-shaped with long brown hair.  She doesn’t wear any makeup and cusses all the time.  It seems to me that every second work is a swear word.  It seems to be part of her vocabulary.  She praise God with the same mouth and yet she can swear just as badly. One thing is for sure she is fearful of dying.  Each day we would chat about this and that and then boom; she is reminded of someone who passed away and would discuss them in detail.  At first it didn’t worry me but lately it is working on my nervous. I find it disturbing to hear about dead people each day and today it is a relief not to be speaking about dead people but look what I am writing about?  My goodness, I don’t have to be writing about this but look at my ti...

Lamentation 3: 22 – 23 “ Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.   They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. ” Each day has its own challenges and we don’t always know how to deal with them.   I believe these challenges are to help each of us grow and draw us closer to the Lord.   The Lord has been so gracious and provided something good in my life.   My latest challenge is to get along with new people of different cultures and they don’t always understand me or I them. I thank the Lord God for His great love that is not consuming and His compassion that never fails.   I also thank the Lord God for them new every morning; great is my Lord’s faithfulness.   I want to make it my goal in life going forward to grow old gracefully, to be kind and show compassion.   I want to be able to listen to people and not interrupt them.   I want to be able to speak to them without accusing ...

  Red, yellow and brown maple leaves falling from the trees a chilling wind raising some leaves wafting away exposing the naked barks to the chilling wind Whistling threw the trees the wind winds around and about swirling the red, yellow and brown maple leaves still hanging on the trees pulling at the leaves as the wind picks up and pulls more leaves to the ground Red, yellow and brown maple leaves cover the ground resting and turning brown as the days move along Flickers of sunlight peeking through the clouds touching a carpet of brown leaves Birds come to rest on the bare barks singing their merry songs A warmth is felt all over the fields as the buds of little green leave appear Gently spring is moving closer taking tiny steps  Haiku poem by  Yvette van Niekerk  (13 July 2012)