Vivienne / July 14, 2023
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Let’s start at the very beginning shall we? Your Papa and I fell for each ...
Vivienne / December 11, 2017
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What do I do when I’m overwhelmed by life? And believe me, I am no different from anyone else…there have been many times when I’ve been engulfed and grasping for ...
Vivienne / November 28, 2017
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This powerful lyric from Hillsong looked down on me one day when I was subbing in the choir room: Lead me to the cross where your love poured out, bring me to my knees, Lord I lay me ...
Vivienne / November 21, 2017
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After generations of captivity in a foreign land the Hebrews were set free from their oppressors: Pharaoh and the Egyptians. In that freeing there was a slaying – the horse and ...
Vivienne / October 18, 2017
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Lots of people are coming to Footlights this weekend. My oldest son from California. My oldest daughter from Burleson. My youngest son from Hutchins. My brother and his sons from ...
Vivienne / October 6, 2017
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When I take my afternoon walks my eyes do the praying for me. There is no need for me to mumble my litanies, all I have to do is pay attention to the fields I’m passing through, ...
Vivienne / September 14, 2017
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Living with the disquieting feeling that wherever or whoever you are there’s always somewhere or someone better, is part of the human state. “FOMO,” Daughts calls ...
Vivienne / September 12, 2017
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Our front screened in porch boasts indoor outdoor carpet made from re-cycled plastic bottles. Soft to the touch it is nothing like the green stuff we used at Collins. Madge, the great ...
Vivienne / August 14, 2017
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Traveling Central is always a nightmare. Drivers are in a hurry, frustrated by the snare ups, the congested intersections, roadworks, Distracted by their phones, convenient ...
Vivienne / July 25, 2017
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In the parable of the sower, Matthew 13: 3-9, a story that I love, I am reminded that the seed is the Kingdom of God, me. God is the sower. Some of the seed falls on hard ground, some ...
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
Recommended Reading:
Dominion
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule--the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
Hannah’s Child
In this award-winning memoir Stanley Hauerwas gives a frank, transparent account of his own life interwoven with the development of his thought. Unique to this paperback edition is a new afterword that offers Hauerwas's reflections on responses to Hannah's Child.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
