Hi! I’m Deryn
Deryn is a writer, artist, and lover of nature and travel. Born in the previously named Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from 1820 Settler pioneering stock, she has traveled the world, moving to South Africa and the United Kingdom. She retired from her career as an exploration cartographer and housing manager and now lives in the United States of America. Her rich adventures have enabled her to write about transforming life’s experiences, building resiliency, and combining her Art and love of beauty with these. This enables her to mentor and inspire others who are struggling with the complexities of life.
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MARGIN OF LOSS -MY CHILD ASKED ME TO HELP HER DIE
God seems to show me more and more from the story. I’m blessed with the understanding that even if there is loss, God can cause rejoicing. For me, one of the incredible comforts have been that Shirley’s struggles and pain are gone, her unhappiness a thing of the past, and that I have not had to help her do Covid!
BORDERS – IMMIGRANTS IN THE MARGINS
Help people transition into their new place of abode and feel at home while retaining their identity, not only as human beings but also made in God’s image and worthy of love and acceptance.
DIVORCE WAS NOT AN OPTION
We can’t erase the past, and divorce will always be a part of our history. We can find ways to move to a place where divorce no longer has emotional power in our lives.
LIVING IN THE MARGINS
Do we allow ourselves sufficient margins of time to have rest and cope with emergencies? Or is every spare minute full of something?
JESUS LISTENED TO WOMEN ABUSED BY THE PATRIARCHIAL SYSTEM
. These women if they lived today would still more than likely be marginalized because of the systems that kept them in their circumstances, often play out into lives of women today.
JESUS LISTENED TO THE WOMEN’S VOICES OF THOSE IN HIS GENEALOGY
When you look at these women’s stories from a completely different perspective, you hear their cries for justice in a patriarchal system that marginalized them as human beings made in the image of God. You see the hand of God moving to vindicate them and bring them into a place where they are given justice and the honor of being part of the genealogy of Jesus.
