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Continue reading →: Investment
It’s been playing a bit on repeat in my heart of late… this idea about using what you have well. It’s that parable of the talents, the one who uses finds increase – the one who hides in fear loses them altogether. Haven’t we all at some time sat and…
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Continue reading →: Friday: For Inspiration
Dear creative hearts, Today I want to bless you in your creative pursuits. I am so encouraged by the story of Bezalel – filled with the Spirit of God for the express purpose of creativity. For Inspiration: May you know the deep wellsprings of life that bubble up from creative…
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Continue reading →: Friday Eight: For Searching
Our lives are not a one time arrival. We search for so many things – great and small. The lost keys, the purpose of life. St Augustine penned one of my favourite ever quotes, ‘Our hearts are made for you and they are restless until they find their rest in…
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Continue reading →: Being Fed
When my friends have a baby I make them ‘feeding biscuits’ which I take them when I go and visit them in the hospital. These feeding biscuits are my own special recipe and I give them with strict instructions, for the feeding mama, not to be shared thing is, this…
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Continue reading →: Friday Seven: For Joy
It sounds so simple joy, three little letters. Like some sweet old lady who knits booties and hums about Saints Marching In. Like air bubbles wiggling their way to the top as a plastic bottle is submerged at children’s bath time. Like some sweet, fleeting thing – a kite let go…
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Continue reading →: The Work of Lent
Lent has started, and in all my usual style I have missed its entry and filled its first days with busy and loud. I love the concept of Lent – a time for reflection, a journey to the cross, a pared back, quieter faith that demands facing silence and finding…
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Continue reading →: Friday Six: When You Feel Small
Hello Dear Hearts, Today I want to bless you for those times when you feel small. The times you inadvertently blurt out the wrong thing, when someone shames you, when you feel embarrassed by your own lack. The times you have no quick reply and you feel the shrinking of…
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Continue reading →: Friday Five: For the Wounded Heart
My heart has been whispering comfort to you this week. It’s been standing next to you wounded ones. Don’t we all become wounded on this journey? And aren’t we all guilty of the words that fly too soon from their quiver and damage another dear heart? Blessing for the Unjustly…
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