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A Kingdom for Losers

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February 18, 2015

It can be confusing being a Christian – there are those bits of the Bible that don’t make sense the bloodshed the tales of destruction there are the calls to holiness, to a standard so far beyond our own the verses about angels and head coverings… and then over all…
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The Hardest Friends to Have

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February 14, 2015

there are ‘friend requests’ there are regular see often friends and there are faces I know or have known and I hover above the request button wondering if I should press send and the ones I see irregularly, you know in supermarket isles and other places and there have been…
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What I Fear from Praise and Criticism

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February 11, 2015

This sharing … it is wonderful and enlarging and diminishing and terrifying. What if I say something and misled? What if I offend? What if I am wrong? What if I am a clanging cymbal that drowns out the deep quiet of His love? It stops my heart with hope…
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Roots that Break Rocks

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February 9, 2015

I was biking the other day over a paved cycle path. Along the edge of a road lined with beautiful tall trees. The cycle path had lines like veins that ran across it in places. Gently nudging the paved concrete up. Small ripples that might not be felt unless I…
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Story Telling Matters

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February 9, 2015

You would think the One who invented speech would know how to use it best. When the Word who gave life to the stars, the heavens, the dragonflies and the birds of paradise dwelt with us we might see a little of how to really communicate, … and he told…
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On Being Known

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February 5, 2015

When you watch the ‘after reports’ when there has been some awful unexpected act of violence in a community and the neighbour says ‘he/she seemed like such a nice person, always kept the garden in order, collected our post when we went away. I guess we didn’t really know them’.…
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Declare/Engage

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February 4, 2015

Does creativity matter? Does it have any special value in the world? Isn’t it essentially a selfish activity to be doing some hobby when there are people starving/people without hope/ people with broken hearts….? it matters, it matters, it matters Creative people use songs, stories, pictures, gardens, art works, installations,…
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The Centre of the Herd

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February 1, 2015

We went biking this week – as we often do our little family. Dad at the front 2 littles in the middle, Mama at the rear. It feels safe that way – one to check for danger at the front, one watching over the ‘littles’ from the back. It’s made…
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Hello,

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.