For Mothers Day
Mum and Dad have always been busy – but if you need them they somehow will be
AVAILABLE
Snapshots of Mum
Regarding questions
Questions that LEAD to the pursuit of truth are true questions. Questions that deconstruct truth are a repetition of those of the serpent “Is that what God reeeally said?” I have been guilty of this. It feels ‘deep’ to think something ‘new’ yet truth is truth and the serpent is cunning and if he can, he will blind us with his own form of ‘light’.
(This was a VSP – very short post 🙂 )
To judge or not to judge?
It’s not such a simple question!
A number of years ago I did a book display at a super ‘conservative’ Christian rally. I’d recently spent a number of years prior to that in a Pentecostal church but I’d attended the same rallies by the same conservative group as a small child with my parents. I stood there awash in The Fathers love and a sense of His presence and joy with the memory of being a toddler in that very auditorium and I knew the same joy I felt in the Pentecostal style worship was because it was the same Holy Spirit who was in each place. Neither set of beliefs governing style had everything right, but the Holy Spirit, by God’s grace, was present in both. He was there when I was a toddler in that auditorium, He was there in the Pentecostal church and He was there again that night.
Continue reading “To judge or not to judge?”Modern idols
When a passion becomes more to me than the God who gave it
– it is an idol.
When an interest control me rather than the God who indwells me
– it is an idol
When the good I seek to do surpasses my relationship with Him
– it is an idol
Go-getter!
It’s 9am. Miss 3 is knocking on the door of her sleeping sister shouting “C’mon!! The sky is awake!!!”
VSP 🙂
Beloved daughter
Every now and then, one of those ‘letters from God’ does the email rounds… I always feel a bit reserved/dubious about them so about 10 years ago I did a bunch of searching through the Scriptures and put together this one…
Continue reading “Beloved daughter”Overview of the Feasts of Israel (that have little to do with food!)
Just a little over a year ago I barely had even as much as a surface knowledge of the 7 Feasts of Israel. I had never given a moments thought to the few times I had noticed a specific month named in the Bible – they are in a different language (!!!) so had never bothered to wonder when these mentioned things happened in our frame of reference… but all this changed and my fascination with these subjects has brought depth and dimension to my life in ways I could never have imagined.
Continue reading “Overview of the Feasts of Israel (that have little to do with food!)”Traditions and time
It DOES happen so fast!!! When I was a brand new mum it used to so get up my nose when older mums told me to cherish it as it would go by so fast… the remark STILL gets up my nose – the way I am made IS to cherish it – never needed to be told it – I have so loved these years of mothering and newborn is still my favourite stage.
Continue reading “Traditions and time”The closing bracket of a 22 day period of remembrance.
We became grandparents
While I was still pregnant myself
On an unusually hot spring day last October
When our son and his sweet heart
Told us
There was to be a baby in 8 months.
A tiny life
The day he was born, we entered the never before seen underworld of the neo-natal unit at King Edward on the 8.2.08.
I ignore the crashing in the corners of my mind… it has happened… he is born… too soon… too soon…
Continue reading “A tiny life”