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Continue reading →: Friday Four: For Peace
It can be all too easy to start the year holding on to calm when we are on holiday and relaxed – then reality comes crashing in and all that peace we thought was ours to keep, disappears. If your peace has vanished like a vapour this is my blessing…
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Continue reading →: Poverty Mentality
As a child it wasn’t often we went to a house where a generous morning or afternoon tea spread was put on, but when there was we were usually told – just one thing (maybe two on an extremely special occasion). I would stand there in fits of indecisiveness wanting…
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Continue reading →: Friday three:For Farewells
It’s Friday so it must be time to bless you. 🙂 It seems pertinent in my life right now to have a blessing for goodbyes. Moving lands comes with more goodbyes than one might feel emotionally equipped for. A blessing for Farewells: May there be a sustaining joy of shared…
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Continue reading →: At The Heart of It
We’ve all seen it at an event, churchy or otherwise, the ‘giving buckets’ roll around and the pennies tumble in. Although the act is the same, the people putting in their contributions, there is all sorts of different at the heart. There are the overflowing/ joyful givers, whose gift comes…
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Continue reading →: Friday two: For letting go
Continuing my Friday blessing series. (2 counts as a series doesn’t it?) A prayer/blessing for letting go May you have the courage to recognise the patterns that limit you May you have bravery to name the fears that keep you being less than you are called to be May you have friends…
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Continue reading →: Relationship
I sat next to a child on a phone in a bus shelter the other day. A beautiful child, with a gorgeous accent, who had (loudly) phoned home to talk to ‘mum’. At some point someone else was put on the phone and in the space of about 2 minutes…
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Continue reading →: Friday 1
Many moons ago when I was very much familiar with certain Christian practices and unfamiliar with others, a wise man came to visit us. Dressed in a quirky style, older, the artist type – he was definitely not a regular fit where we usually Sunday-ed. At the end of his…
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