Breathe Deeply


Well, the last exam has been done and all my stuff is waiting downstairs to go in my parents' car that arrives in the morning. Tonight my room is very bare and it's actually my last night sleeping in here - I'm obviously not taking my duvet to the States (where the temperatures are so high I fear I may melt..).

As I pack up the fact I'm about to leave somewhere really hits when I take the pictures, often photos, off the wall and remove the cards that have brightened my day from the noticeboard. And it seemed really fitting as I looked at this one. It's been on my wall all year and was taken at the Lennon Wall in Prague last summer.

I can't believe I'm leaving Cardiff.

I wrote a card for Jo a few weeks ago and in it I wrote a list of all my memories with her - I got to fifty without trying. I have so many memories here. Because I've lived so much life here. With so many memories it's sad to leave but the number suggests I lived here exactly as I should have.

I remember arriving here. To that little room in Talybont. With only three suitcases and knowing little about whta what I'd let myself in for. And only eighteen, straight out of school.

Four years later.. I have more than three suitcases. Much more. And I learnt more that I imagined. I loved more than I imagined. I have so many memories, experiences and friends from here. And I am no longer that eighteen year old girl.

I suspect the lessons I have learnt here I'll always be learning and unpacking for quite some time.

Cardiff has been unbelievable. More than I asked or imagined.

And as new adventures await, and I am so excited about them the lesson that seems the largest right now is the one shown in the photo.

Our time is but a breath
so breathe deeply.

I'm praying I would always live in light of those words.

And the amazing verse that God dropped in my lap? From one on my favourite chapters of the Bible:

Behold, I am doing a new thing;

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert.


Isaiah 43 v 19




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I'm a Northern Irish girl in the fourth and final year of studying psychology in Cardiff (Wales) who has had many adventures in the Czech Republic and I'm excited about where God seems to be leading! The main thing about me is that I love and follow Jesus and I'm on the long road of learning how that should affect all the other things. Welcome to my little corner of the internet. There are much more exciting places to be but you're welcome to stick around.

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