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Continue reading →: On Love that Makes You Shrink
We bus a lot as a family. We don’t actually own a car and so the boys are pretty comfortable on public transport. Sometimes we catch a bus that has a single seat at the front with an armrest and a small sliver of space on the other side. My…
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Continue reading →: on the surface cleaning
I’m not a great cleaner the tedium of tidying and scrubbing surfaces to find them immediately defaced by the progress of family life that marches with steadiness straight after them… it breaks my will to start but when we have people coming over suddenly I am motivated – heaven forbid…
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Continue reading →: for the mamas with shaking hearts
It’s easy to lose sight of the light, it’s easy for a mama’s heart to be filled to overflowing with the stories of the terror on the peripheries. Sometimes it just whispers and hounds at your heels this world you’ve willingly brought your babies into, and the thunderclouds of political…
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Continue reading →: When the Echoes Tumble
I sometimes feel ripped off by echoes… they don’t seem to come back again as much as they flitter away, jumping onto the edges of far away walls and whirling in caves I cannot see. … and I can feel the same with prayer…. I call into a still and…
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Continue reading →: for the weary
when it’s getting too much like work and nothing like a relationship remember the invitation of Jesus to you the burden needs to be light the strength for all to be bearable for you lean in dear one lean
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Continue reading →: On The Offering
There was once a woman, marginalised and unnoticed, poor and silent. She sat on the sidelines and watched as the rich, recognised, important walked into church and dropped their offerings into the bucket. Each making an impressive sound as it landed, a ripple through the room as the the righteous…
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Continue reading →: When Today Isn’t Going to be Awesome
Aren’t those days great when you rise to sunshine and hope in the air and the promise of something new and special right around the corner? Isn’t it wonderful when the season is a promising one and we can see everywhere the signs of spring? But there are days when…
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Nau mai, haere mai (welcome) from Aotearoa/ New Zealand. I’m an educator, theologian, poet, textile artist, extrovert and lover of the Church. This is a space primarily for Christian poetry and blessing but also reflection. Want to use my work or know more? Please check in via a comment or email.
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