Blogging Begins...

This is my first ever blog!

It’s quite challenging to decide what to write, because my mind is full of so many ideas, but they are all tangled together. So here goes...

Why ‘Pondering Pancakes’?

The idea of ‘pondering’ is something close to my heart. It speaks of not letting thoughts, ideas, questions and moments pass unnoticed. Life so often moves on in a whirlwind, minutes roll into hours, days and weeks. But to ponder is to capture the beautiful moments, of what God is doing, what he has made and who he is. It treasures, it challenges, it grapples with ideas and gives you the opportunity to reflect, dream and work out how faith and life, joy and hard times, theory and practice go hand in hand.

So what have pancakes got to do with it?

I like pancakes, and it makes a nice alliteration too, but it goes a bit deeper than that. A couple of weeks before Shrove Tuesday, I start getting the longing for pancakes, and so I’ll make the odd batch (flipping pancakes is an essential part of the process) and then continue making and eating pancakes into the start of Lent. In a way, while mixing, flipping and eating yummy pancakes, the yearning to pause and ponder and get my perspectives in order stirs up. Therefore ‘Pondering Pancakes’ seem apt.

Final thought... In the same way pancakes aren’t restricted to just one day, pondering is not just restricted to the Lenten season either. (This is particularly good because although Easter was late this year- four weeks have already rolled on since then).

God Bless and enjoy xx