Broken - Five Minute Friday

Our hearts the muscle that keeps as alive, is also incredibly fragile.

When it is broken, it can never be truly repaired.  A little part of it remains damaged.

Ours hearts are precious - they not only keep us alive, but give us the opportunity to love.  And, to live.

Some of us do not realise how precious, how vulnerable, how fragile, or how strong, our hearts are until they have been given away.  Especially to someone who didn't deserve them.  To someone who didn't understand the gift they received through the love we gave in our hearts. To people who took, and took, and took.  Then threw away.

When you have given your heart away, and found it smashed into tiny pieces.  Battered and bruised, broken.

BROKEN BROKEN BROKEN BROKEN BROKEN

It seems like healing is impossible.  So far away.  So unattainable.

But that healing that we seek, that healing that we need, comes not from shutting ourselves away, but in our pain and our fragility, laying our lives before the cross.  Giving our hearts to the one who gave up his heart for all of us.  When he died just so we could live.

In complete surrender I again give my heart to the one who heals all wounds.  He holds our hearts in his hands, and he knows how precious they are, how fragile and he loves us back to life.  In Jesus we find healing, release and freedom.  Broken hearts are made new.

Give your broken heart to Jesus, let him love you back to life.

May his love fall on you now as you read this, and may you feel his healing presence.

Today I have joined the wonderful Lisa Jo and her tribe to write for Five Minutes, without hesitation, over thinking, or back tracking on the word broken, please join us.

Close your eyes wherever you are, and let the love from this song fill you with hope, that no matter how broken your heart is, no matter how shattered, He will make it clean and wash the shame away.

That's it for now ...

Nics

Salt and Sparkle = Life Remarkable

Have you entered my McKinney's Sugar Easter Baking Hamper Giveaway

Enter today to win this fabulous hamper with the full range of McKinney's Sugars and packed with baking essentials like pastry cutters, cake stands, cake deocoration sets and much more. 

To enter, please leave a comment, post a tweet, like my posts on Facebook or drop me a note, and I will annouce the winner of the giveaway on Easter Monday 1 April, 2013, I will annouce the winner on my blog.

Have a wonderful Easter - enter the giveaway, and send me some shots of what your baking this Easter.

Here, Here, and Here are some fab Easter Recipes.

Happy Easter

That's it for now ...

Nics

Salt & Sparkle = Life Remarkable

McKinney's Sugar Easter Hamper Giveaway

Today we are absolutely delighted to team up with McKinney's Sugar in Northern Ireland to offer an amazing Easter Baking Hamper Giveaway.  The hamper will have a range of McKinney's Sugars, some brilliant baking essentials like baking cups, cake decoration sets, pastry cutters and other baking bits and pieces.  It is a fantastic hamper, and one you would absolutely LOVE to receive.

To enter, please leave a comment, post a tweet, or drop me a note, and I will annouce the winner of the giveaway on Easter Monday 1 April, 2013, I will annouce the winner on my blog.

My brother's wedding was on Monday 25 March, and I made a whole selection of goodies using McKinney's Sugar - Peanut ButterCups, Mergingues, 15's, brownies and lemon cake.

Have a wonderful Easter - enter the giveaway, and send me some shots of what your baking this Easter.

Here, Here, and Here are some fab Easter Recipes.

Happy Easter

That's it for now ...

Nics

Salt & Sparkle = Life Remarkable

How are you thinking today?

Today as I continue to prepare for one of the biggest events in my families lives I think in pictures. Seeing things imaging how they could be, thinking about the spaces I am working with.

Everything is in colour. Everything is in image.

How are you thinking today?

That's it for now ...

Nics

Salt & Sparkle = Life Remarkable

Caption for life

My friends Gary & Thomas have this print in their hallway. It has made me smile from the moment I saw it because it not only sums up their attitude to life but a central attitude for life.

Work Hard & Be Nice to People. Could it really get any simpler!

That's it for now ...

Salt & Sparkle = Life Remarkable

What's your favourite book?

I love reading. I'm rarely without a book I. My hand and several more in my reading pile. It's difficult to chose one favourite but I'm going to try -

Matilda by Roald Dahl

There are so many words. So much to think about. So many wonderful authors. But I chose Dahl because I think his work has had one of the biggest impacts on my life.

What about you? What are you reading today?

That's it for now ...

Nics

Salt and Sparkle = Life Remarkable

Today is my favourite

Sometimes we are so busy we forget that today is the day. Today is the moment we will never live again. Today is the day to seize.

That's it for now ...

Nics

Salt & Sparkle = Life Remarkable