Yearly Archives: 2021

expectant: having or showing an excited feeling that something is about to happen, especially something good. Expectations – I have wrestled with this topic, thinking of all the wonderful terms about expectations. How we can exceed expectations, meet them, lower them, or defy them. How we can have false expectations […]

Be expectant

12 Feb, 2021 in Feb 2021: Expectations tagged brenébrown / expectations / Isaiah by Jodie McCarthy

My parents taught me, ‘believe the best in people first.’ And I have to say that I have held this value and worked to live it out, perhaps at times a little naively, but I would rather believe first that people are good, until they prove otherwise. There is a […]

Believe the best

8 Feb, 2021 in Feb 2021: Expectations / Radio Scripts tagged believe the best / expectations / relationships by Penny

Before I met my husband, I wrote a list of expectations that I wanted from a future husband on a white, lined notecard. After my husband and I dated for a couple of months I remembered that I had that list of ‘husband expectations’ in my wallet. I took it […]

Hold on, let go, and hold loosely

5 Feb, 2021 in Feb 2021: Expectations tagged expectations / parenting / relationships by Mish Pope

Sometimes if I listen to culture, expectation appears to be a dirty word – or at the very least, something to be avoided and rarely applied to others. Particularly our children. When did this happen? When did expectations become primarily associated with fear and anxiety? I believe expectations are part […]

Expectations

1 Feb, 2021 in Feb 2021: Expectations / Radio Scripts tagged #gratitude / expectations / fear less by Kelley

2020 wasn’t all bad. (Am I allowed to say that out loud?) Our family walked our own journey of grief, that was outside of the corporate pain, that the world endured. My father was diagnosed in the middle of lockdown, with a terminal illness and by the time the cinema’s […]

Seize life! Eat bread with gusto!

23 Jan, 2021 in 2021 Jan: Gusto by Amanda

In many ways, 2020 was a difficult year. At a global level we were hit with a pandemic that shook us to our core in medical, social and economic terms. And its ripples extended into our homes, relationships and personal values. Yet as we emerge from that year, what have […]

Gusto for the things that matter

18 Jan, 2021 in 2021 Jan: Gusto / Radio Scripts tagged listen / optimism / relationships / wisdom by Kelley