Maggie's Life Beads

Life Beads was something to which I was introduced as a way of looking at my life, without the use of words. Sometimes it's hard to put into writing what you feel or have experienced whereas the use of colour can sometimes help.

And so, this is who I am:

2 x pink - I was born a GIRL

MSH - Maggie Silva Hope

3 x blue - my older 3 brothers

pink - me

blue - my younger brother

cork (brown) - born in the Mid-North of SA – dry and dusty

blue - my paternal grandmother’s water well (which I loved to use)

orange - depicts my school in the Mid-North

green-blue-green - we moved to the South-East of SA (rich green pastures and the Blue Lake of Mt Gambier)

black - large bead = my mother’s death

2 x no-colour - the colour of my life, following my mother’s death

brown - the colour of the clothes I had to wear (by my paternal grandmother)

2 x no-colour - the colour of my life living with my paternal grandmother

black & gold - the football team I followed (enthusiastically)

black - my father’s death (not as big an impact as my mother’s death)

light colours - the freedom I felt following my father’s death

NORM - I met Norm

Blue - we lived in Darwin, after our wedding

Green - we moved back to Adelaide

red-white-blue - Norm is English & we visited England

yellow - we renewed our faith in Jesus

red - the cleansing of me by Jesus’ blood

blue - I received the Holy Spirit – new life

pink - I became a daughter of God

blue-pink - we became children of God

brown-blue-brown - the desert of Egypt with the Nile River flow through it

green-yellow - we returned to Australia (the colours of Australia)

gold - the pavements of heaven are lined with this - eternity (PS: I'm on the lookout for a BIG gold bead- stay tuned...

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