Blogs to inspire hope

The Seeds of Hope Community blog is here to bring a smile to your heart.

  • New Year, New Doors of Opportunity 

    New Year, New Doors of Opportunity 

    A new year often brings hope for a fresh start, filled with resolutions for the year ahead—I know I am ready for that!  Have you ever found yourself happy to be closing the door on what has been in the previous year with an anticipation for the new? It’s like hitting a reset button on… Read more

  • Sharing is Caring

    Sharing is Caring

    What if we lived our everyday life as if our future depended upon it, looking for opportunities to share and care for others even when we don’t feel like it? In my family, we have a saying: “Sharing is caring!” My youngest daughter taught us that—from a child, she has used this saying when sharing… Read more

  • Time to Slow Down

    Time to Slow Down

    After a long hot Aussie summer, the ground is often depleted, dry, dusty and lacking nutrients and moisture, ready for a new season to bring the refreshing rain and cooler weather. Soil is often used as a metaphor for the condition of the human heart (not the organ that beats and pushes blood around our… Read more

  • Season of Change

    Season of Change

    Have you ever asked yourself the question, what do I want my life to produce? Imagine with me for a moment that your life is a seed—your time, your words, your actions and finance all seed—then ask yourself the question, what is it producing? As a gardener, I know there are times when what I… Read more

  • Bless Through the Stress

    Bless Through the Stress

    Life has a way of knocking us down at times, leaving us with two options when the knocks come, to get back up or stay down. We can allow the circumstances to make us bitter instead of better. But what if the hard knocks were actually training? What if each time we got back up,… Read more

  • Encouragement in Disappointment

    Encouragement in Disappointment

    As a keen organic gardener, I understand the labour of love it takes to prepare an area for a new veggie patch—clearing the ground and removing all the weeds and debris before adding organic matter and nutrients to the soil in order to plant the seed. Once the tender seedlings start to grow, they need… Read more

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