Day: May 31, 2020
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adventurous weather talking
You gotta have faith, the song tells us, but we really do gotta. Faith is a gift from God but once given to us, what do we do with it? is it thrown at the bottom of the toybox after a few weeks? Is it taken out for an airing once a week on a…
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4 Alls
The lady experienced grace And in that moment Everything changed Because that ain’t no lady In the genteel world Everything changed He wrote in the sand They walked away Everything changed We all need this We all can change at the well We know it is real Moments like this when Everything changes And we…
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John the Baptist #22
So my 22 days with John are at an end a day early. It has been great, have enjoyed each study session, I held onto them like a mother with a baby. We can be so dismissive of our church fathers, oh that was just for then. Now is the time… but really they were…
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views of inter
2013 I am actually on target, day twenty of twenty-two, forty-four sermons in twenty-two days. It is amazing and I give thanks to God who cleared my schedule and even when things got moved around and extra bits got thrown in and antihistamines took their toll. I can see the end in sight. I am…
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why diary?
2013 I am an open book, as in when I write in my diary it is me, it is not a flowery prettified me, it is just me and most often me writing off the cuff, from the heart, about this journey and the situations I am in with occasional flashbacks. Being an open book…
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mirror looking
Practice in the mirror Look at yourself in the mirror Mirror watching Mirror waiting Mirror cloning Cardboard cut-out living ===== breathing pheuma don’t study it live it don’t look to see what you said live by what is said read and be read and do ==== balancing the tension intp performer into performer James so…
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back on track
2013 Why am I so worried about dotting my eyes and crossing my teas? It is so unlike me, I am usually so chaotic in thought and deed and now it is like there’s a wee civil servant inside making sure all my paperwork is right. I suppose all along this journey I have expected…
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bliss{married}
2013 “Steph! Get the phone, love, I have my hands full,” George literally had his hand down a chicken’s throat.“Sure, honey.”“Hi, DeLaureal residence, Stephanie speaking,” Steph was putting on her call centre voice. George continued stuffing the chicken.“Re ally, oh my gosh, re ally, oh my, let me tell George,” she was becoming almost incoherent.“George,…
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Tally rests
Talenkynic woke before dawn, full of night terrors, sweats and flushes. Witness to too much destruction, her unconscious mind revisited nightly. As she woke she caught the merest glimpse in the corner of her eye, a shape, a shadow, nothing tangible. She couldn’t remember, she couldn’t forget. Shards of her past were clear shining like…
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pandemic
How do we think carefully and yet creatively, critically and most of all faithfully in this time of lock-down, regarding God’s mission? Has it been shoved to one side as we choose inward looking and looking after those we care for and ourselves? How does our faith inform our lives, in this new time of…
Asset Based Community Development meets Church 