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Continue reading →: on making pearls
sometimes when I am lost away in – I hesitate to use the word worship, because I think worship is so much more than a Sunday song session (much as I love those) – I feel like if it were only me and God how much I could do for…
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Continue reading →: righteous anger
There is this bit in the bible where Jesus walks into the temple, God’s scared space, and he loses it with the temple sellers. He really goes for launch, tables go flying, there’s a whip, I’m pretty sure the words he uses aren’t quiet and calm. …. can you imagine…
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Continue reading →: sometimes the old hymns say it best
were the whole realm of nature mine that were an offering far too small love so amazing, so divine demands my soul, my life, my all today I am looking to Lent as a chance to soak in the brilliance of the hugeness of the Love that sent Jesus up…
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Continue reading →: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Values are so easy when you’re talking about them I love peopleI believe in peopleI know that we are all touched all over with the fingerprints of the Creator…. But in the heat of the moment, when I am met with defiance in the classroom or unhelpful people in less…
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Continue reading →: The shock of the Cross
I’ve been failing at Lenting…. it’s like it has slipped past me as I have rushed the other way. I have felt it, the lack of lent, hovering like some kind of hologram completely unrelated to my here and now. I have this dream of journeying well and being in…
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Continue reading →: My Favourite Disciple
I love that the bunch of people Jesus chose to train as his elite witness-making squad was a bunch of rag tag, unexpecteds. A bunch of people who would never have willingly hung out together and who had some seriously divergent points of view on many things – including their…
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Continue reading →: beauty in brokeness
In Japan they have a style of mending called Kintsugi instead of trying to disguise the cracks when they put something back together they fill the cracks with gold and something very ordinary, some mundane vessel, is transformed into something interesting, and beautiful, and lovely. I am taken by this…
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Continue reading →: holding hope in a broken cup
one of things I read about Christian’s contribution to creativity is that we can depict both the despair of fallenness and the glory of the goodness of God’s good creation,* most of the time I find that I have all sorts of joy in seeing the wonderful glory of God…
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I’m Miriam Jessie
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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