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Reminding You of Things Sacred
All around your every day life God has placed his sacred life. It touches you daily, simply, in many ways. If you have perhaps never known this, or if you have forgotten this, then you are at the right place. This space is about reminding you [and me] about all that is sacred.
When we understand that everything is created for a sacred purpose, we will live more simply, lead more gently and worship more fully.
Bits & Bridles and our God
What does it look like to be guided by God’s eye; to simply see where he is looking and to instinctively go to that place?
How Your Soul Is Formed Matters
Every day we are being formed. What we see, hear, touch, smell and taste sends us messages. These messages whisper stories to us about ourselves and they form us.
God's Face
Aaron’s blessing is one of the most profound prayers, spoken originally from God’s own mouth, gifted by him to be spoken over his people. It is the way of life God want for us.
The mixed emotions we have for the New Year
New Year’s Eve brings a combination of melancholy and anticipation, sadness and joy, a strange mix of emotions we perhaps find unsettling. I believe we should embrace these feelings, and allow them to work their cleansing of our soul.
The Weight of the Blessing
As trees bend with the weight of rain, so our souls long to bend with the weight of blessing.
Familiar yet new
The breeze of spring blowing over the southern hemisphere is like the newness of the ancient Spirit that blows where He wills. Familiar … yet new.
When Lent and Valentine's Day Collide
When Lent and Valentine's Day are on the same day, what do we choose?
Evening thoughts on the Second Sunday of Advent
The God of all creation cares immensely about the kind of people we are becoming. Advent is a time to follow in his ways.
A young girl's prayer for Zimbabwe
The unfurling of events in Zimbabwe this month has made me recall a prayer on a cold winter's morning in 1978.
Holy Week - the Disciplined and the Wild
Holy Week - does it bind us in useless tradition or can it set us wildly free?
When People Break in and Steal
When people spitefully use you, there is great gain available in the pain.
Out of the Flames
How do you keep fighting when all you hold dear is threatened? What forces are at your disposal when you are tired, and are hurting and can't fight anymore?
Purpose amidst the chaos
Right slap in the middle of our beautiful places, evil lurks, waiting to trip us up. In the midst of the resulting chaos there is a place of peace and purpose.