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Continue reading →: What Would You Have Offered?
The little boy who gave his lunch to Jesus (not even, to one of the disciples actually) – this wild boy who started a mind boggling miracle. 5,000 people from a questionable cheese spread and cracker packet and a soft sandwich containing marmite and wilting lettuce – or something like…
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Continue reading →: The All of It
Sometimes we forget that God is the the God of the all of it. We think that the ‘spiritual things’ are the important things – these are the things that should fill our lives, our contemplations, our focus. We wander away from wandering in the perfect garden He created. We…
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Continue reading →: A Word for Now
I love that when I am at my most feral, full of my own ambition and pride when I am hurt and slighted when I disappointed and angry that He will still speak like a gentle breeze that calms a raging hurricane of emotion simply a word from Him and…
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Continue reading →: Be Gentle with Me
Sometimes my faith feels more delicate than others – I worry for the world my boys will grow into – damaged by war and hate and a disregard for our charge to steward it as those who know how much it delights the God who made it. When people verbalise…
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Continue reading →: BTL – Trust
This week’s reading was about Abraham offering Isaac – such a powerful and somewhat perplexing (to me) reading. How did Isaac respond to being offered as a sacrifice – how did it effect his relationship with his Father? Was his trust like Abraham’s? Was his peace with him? In a…
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Continue reading →: When You’ve Clicked Refresh a Million Times
And you find no new message no funny story to distract you from your current anxieties when you’ve hoped for an inspiration from a screen – a text, a story, some email bringer of good tidings…. it’s in that few seconds of loading another whisper calls your name and offers…
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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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