I am a girl! Yes...
an odd thing to say I know...perhaps I mention it because while we know it to
be obvious so many of us simply forget to be...the
girl we were born to be...I know I did. I am also a Member of the National Assembly in
the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa...for just over 13 years now.
Well this girl and MP, is also a mother of four amazing
children...I may not have been quite as amazing as a mother but all four of my
children know they were and are my greatest achievements. My three sons – Marc, John-Paul and Matthew
Peter are more or less 10 years apart in age – 38, 28 and 18 – and my daughter
Christy is 31 at her next birthday.
I am also a granny to two gorgeous little boys – Zac Gabriel
is 22 months old and Caleb Marc was one month old on my 59th
birthday (8 September, 2012). Just when
you think life couldn’t get busier...it does...but in the nicest way!
Life has been an incredible journey for me...I seem to have
been born with a clock ticking and an urgency to do all I could as soon as I
reasonably could. Reasonable for me...not
necessarily for others! I have a
tendency to do a lot of reasoning, weighing, considering and assessing. I find people and life fascinating and enjoy
studying both...in my own way, of course!
I love to ‘have coffee’...with people I know and people I
want to get to know and with myself...I can be quite good company I have
discovered! There have been times in my
life where I have been terrible company, sadly, because I really did not appreciate
‘me’.
The problem with being someone who ‘does’ things when they
occur to me, I tend to run out of dreams...I think it is important to have a
dream. Although I may appear to some to
be a ‘risk taker’ – and I am - it is always ‘calculated risk’.
On that note, I remember, this girl is also a wife...being
married is really life at its most ‘out there’ but so worth the scary and
amazing adventure. Demi, my husband, is
incredible - he is what I call a ‘centre-stage’ kind of guy but most
importantly... he is my guy and I am his girl!
Above all I am my Dad’s girl! Not a Dad in the ordinary sense...in fact He
is a Dad in a most extra-ordinary sense...and I keep my hand in His as I step
out each day, as fearlessly as I know how, into what may be unknown to me but
not unknown to God.
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