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Mozzies love me. They land so lightly I mostly don’t know they’re beginning to sting until it’s too late but you can be sure that as un-co and reflex slow as I am, if I see it – I’m going to squish it or at least swat it away.
A couple of weeks ago I said the most awful thing I’ve ever said to anyone in my entire life. I sat, actually stunned, by the foulness of and contempt within my very own words. More about that later.
Continue reading “Squish ’em”
I grew up in a generation that used “Der Fred” when something seemed really dumb or obvious – but I don’t think it’s allowed to say “der Fred” to Jesus.
Continue reading “Do you Want to be Well?”
Some situations make you feel like you’re in a paper bag that you SHOULD be able to break out of, but can’t.
Continue reading “Perseverance?!”
I remember learning in school that there were five senses. Just lately I’ve read a couple of things suggesting that there are way MORE than five. The five we know… sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing…
Continue reading “The box is too small”
When we first moved into our current house twenty-something years ago, we had these lovely neighbours to our right that became like an extra set of grandparents. Bob-Bob would walk their lovely lumbering dog Rufus past our house each afternoon…
Continue reading “Intangible grief”
Ever since Miss 6 was born she’s had several ‘other mothers’ – namely her 3 older sisters, but this comment is about the elder one of 9 years.
So many times when Miss 6 was a baby, Miss Then Nine would sidle up quietly beside me as we went rushing out the door and say “Don’t worry about a bag Mum, I’ve packed some nappies and wipes and a change of clothes…”
Continue reading “Enough love?”
I often think on the quantity of 8 seconds in time. A strange number its true. But there is a reason.
Continue reading “Eight seconds”
I first recognized that a baby knows it has a spirit when watching our first little one be fascinated by her hands as they floated by her face at just a few months of age. These foreign objects? What are they? Where did they come from? What are they to do with me? KNOWING the true ‘me’ is inside.
Continue reading “The mind and heart of a babe”
I read a Facebook post a couple of weeks ago that posed the issue of knowing the difference between conviction and condemnation…. It said that conviction is usually quite specific (like “go to that person and make amends” or “that was wrong”), where condemnation is more general (like “I am hopeless, pathetic, stupid”).
Continue reading “Monthy mood cycle”
Marriage-purity-sex-family are all topics close to my heart and ones on which I’ve spent much time so when I read the Scriptures I’m always on the lookout for deeper understandings on these topics. I’ve read way too many books on these topics and in amongst them I have read a number of Christian teachers say that a wife should never withhold herself from sex and I have seen women damaged and part-way to deranged from their efforts to live out such teaching.
Continue reading “Law vs Freedom – do not withold yourselves!”