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BTL – The Ends of The Earth

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May 29, 2014

Apparently New Zealand is geographically as far from Jerusalem as you can get – it is ‘the ends of the earth‘. It is also where I was born and raised. It is my homeland. This week I’ve been struck by the kind of love that compels someone to leave all…
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BTL – John 14:15-21

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May 20, 2014

I stitched the following images based on the John 14 reading from this weeks lectionary. Once again I am overwhelmed by this intimacy of invitation, this gentleness, this all-consuming-ness. I have taken specific phrases from the text that inspired these images and superimposed them over the top. The full text…
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Blogging the Lectionary – the Master Creator

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May 16, 2014

1 Peter 2:2-10 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. The Living Stone and a Chosen People 4 As you come to him, the living Stone rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious…
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When You Don’t Have Any Left

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February 20, 2014

Today I read this not because you must, but because you are willing, Peter wrote this when he was talking to people in leadership about watching over those entrusted to them.(1 Peter 5v2)How much of our lives are ruled by ‘musts‘?How many sighs come from us because we must do…
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Serve Somebody

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October 30, 2013

It strikes me that we have a choice (as Bob Dylan and Joshua would say) to serve somebody. And in this online world perhaps we can come unstuck about who we serve and what ‘He’s’ like. It seems as though social media sets itself up to via for my service…
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On The Invitation

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September 23, 2013

Maybe you know what it’s like to be a social event and feel totally cut adrift. Maybe you wore pantyhose and high heels and everyone else was bare-legged and sandalled. Maybe you couldn’t find your voice when everyone else wouldn’t stop theirs. Maybe you just feel terrified someone will ask…
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The Light Will Go Green

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September 10, 2013

Have you ever been stuck at the side street entrance to an intersection at night? No one is coming the other way and yet your light, it seems, is perpetually red. And you start to wonder if it will ever change. And you start to consider running the red…. and…
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When the Packaging Loses It’s Shine

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August 18, 2013

I saw this video some time ago and I loved it. It’s about children who live on a slum on top of a landfill making musical instruments from rubbish. It popped into my mind the other day and I loved the parallels it has with our lives. I am so…
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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.