It’s a rainy Saturday evening, and Sabbath quietly draws to a close. Sitting by the window, I observe a solitary blackbird scamper across the wet pavement and into the garden. The tree branches sway gently in the wind, and I savour this peaceful moment with a grateful heart. I am so blessed. We truly have…
I see myself as dirty, worthless, unforgivable, hated, abandoned and nothing more than an object for someone else’s gratification. A woman caged by pornography and video games and a belief that because I am a woman, it is not a real addiction. It is time to recognise that men and women can and do struggle…
We all have days when we get up out of bed on the wrong side, feel plagued by self-doubt, look in the mirror and wonder who that person really is staring back at us. We may ask the question: Am I significant? Do I really matter? I’m talking here about our self-image―the way we feel…
Peering past the worn edges through the stacks and stickiness left behind from the words that fell long ago. Yet their residue still remains, smearing the surface and disfiguring the distant image below. Over the cracks and shards of brokenness that lay hidden underneath. At a glance it is a mosaic pieced together from everyone…
Most of us serve two Gods. No, I’m not talking about Jehovah versus Baal … or God versus X-Box … or Jesus versus money. I mean we actually have two pictures of God and we alternate between following one of them. The first picture of God we hold is the theological one we know in…
Recently, I went out to a café to catch up with a friend. I’d been looking forward to hanging out, and it was a lovely outdoor café, where my friend could bring her dog. We chose a lovely table outdoors on the grass in the sunshine then chatted for a while before deciding what we…
Prayer is a lot like radio. We seat ourselves alone—perhaps in a small room—and talk to the wall in the hope that someone, somewhere is listening. Through a process and a technology, we barely understand, we try to reach out to the unseen listener. We can try to prepare for the communication but—as often as…
Slow fade The words that lingered Whilst I pondered my heart And battled with my mind Deep in my soul I knew I was the one The only one Who had the final say All that has been offered His blood shed His grace given His mercy overflowing He is risen And yet with hands…
Arise, from distress and worry-free From His holy temple, God hears your plea Work joyfully and on Him depend Refuse all feelings conflicting this end Are not His eyes over all the earth Beholding all things in their worth? Will He not from His temple descend Your battles to fight, the seas to rend? Then…
Darling one, When they drew this triangle: You and them at the bottom and God at the top Did you ever notice you were positioned as though there was a distance between you and God? The rhetoric of “journey with someone that is moving closer towards God as you move close to Him, so that…