R.E.S.P.E.C.T
For the last few weeks, Dave and I have been watching the election race with interest. With all the leadership changes over the past few years, it makes the election race confusing and policies more important. Yet, I still find that my voting on Saturday may come down...
Weariness Got You Down?
In Australia the days are starting to get colder, flu season hits and tiredness can feel like it is seeping into our very bones. We can be weary physically through getting older or having younger children, we can be weary from work or the pressures of life, we can be...
Humility- a foreign concept?
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” -C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” Over the past month, I have recognised that I am often slow to accept help and even slower to ask for help. With a newborn in the family,...
Cast Your Cares
Last week, as I waited in a doctor’s surgery waiting room, I observed a young boy and his mum enter the surgery. The boy, about 9 or 10 years old was wringing his hands and this didn’t escape his mother’s watchful eye. Kindly, she uncurled her...
God in the Waiting
Last weekend we celebrated Easter and the glorious gift of grace in Jesus! But as we moved from Good Friday, through to Easter Sunday there is that pregnant pause of Easter Saturday. There is no church service to attend, no celebration; Jesus is dead. And it got me...01. WELCOME
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