We get to stay in Kāpiti! 

God answered my prayers 

I prayed that Dan’s job would be 

In the Wellington Region as an Engineer

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I’ve added a part time job 

Into the mix of my life 

Now I’m working out new routines 

To achieve all I want to as a wife

I want to support my husband 

To do the things he wants to do 

But fitting everything in 

Needs some working through

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My brother-in-law arrived this morning

He had coffees in hand,

He came to do some building with Dan

Now I’m sitting in the sun

With pen and paper to write, 

While happily sipping on a flat white

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Creativity, I won’t let you go

Inner Artist, please, you must know 

That this new job isn’t going to squash you

You’ll still create and still get to soar

You won’t be put on a shelf once more 

Inner Artist, you will still have most of my time 

Your fire won’t be put out 

You’ll continue to shine 

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I get to start a new job today!
I enjoy my poet life and my creative flow

Yet I can’t hold back the excitement of delving into something new 

I will get to learn systems and processes

Interact with a team 

I’ll get to discover from what countries and whose hands 

Came all those beautiful things

It seems my capacity has grown 

I’m ready to be thrown into this next season

I love the community we live in 

It’s wonderful connecting and growing 

With this bunch of beautiful humans 

Seeing the development

The real change in peoples’ worlds

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I wish I could get rid 

Of the insistent thoughts of ‘what if?’

They make me drift

Away from this present moment

Into imaginings of other happenings

That did not or will not exist

Why do I struggle to commit

To the already-made decision

Why must I mess up being content

By the over-use of imagination

Does anyone else do this?

Where you dream of alternative story-endings

Instead of being grateful for this version

Including the middles and beginnings?

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I have new earrings that are tiny pink pearls

They are beautiful

I feel super cute wearing them 

I had my diamond rings cleaned

They are sparkling 

I feel super adored looking at them

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When the Spirit says,

“Go slow, pray.”

You obey.

As you do,

There’s a release into the space

Freedom to be in the awkward place

A letting go of the need

To have everything look okay

A leaning into the reality

Rather than pushing away

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Oh life 

With its unexpected twists and turns

Oh grace

With its ever-expanding covering 

Oh joy 

With its strength to carry on

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I haven’t written any poems for a few days

It seems there’s a build up of things to say

After spending some time away 

I have some poetic catch up to play

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