For the past week, my husband and I have been working on a jigsaw puzzle. It was a gift from a friend and since neither of us are puzzle fans, it had been left untouched for a while. I finally decided to open it after a tough couple of weeks where my head and heart […]
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As my birthday drew to a close this year, it hit me that this year marks 25 years since the first time I asked God for my mission – the mission He created me for. 25 years since Christ responded with, “Are you willing to suffer for me?” 25 years since He tenderly yet very […]
We Need to Talk About Bruno
We All Have a “Bruno” A friend recently expressed surprise that Encanto’s “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” has surpassed Frozen’s “Let It Go” in popularity. In fact, it recently hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart – a feat that hasn’t been accomplished by any song from an animated Disney feature since “A Whole New World” […]
Honouring, Grieving & Letting Go
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 “Can we get a cup of coffee sometime?” My heart sank when I saw this question come from yet another person who would like to talk to me about the work I do. I took a deep breath and […]
It Wasn’t Pride – It’s Shame (and It’s OK)
In my last blog entry (Dear Envy, What Are You Saying?), I shared how listening to an attack of envy helped me to recognise that underneath my envy was actually fear. Well there’s another aspect of my interior experience that I had mislabelled and misunderstood for decades until I had started learning about and recovering […]
Dear Envy, What are you saying?
I used to try and smash out any ‘sinful tendency’ the moment I detect it, and that often meant that I squashed any emotion that seemed less than virtuous. I would try to “pray them away”, often asking God to set me free from my weaknesses and to rescue me from temptation. But the more […]
Stumbling Steps
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. -C.S Lewis- It used to be that whenever I failed to respond to God’s love or to love my neighbour as well as the […]
Fall Lightly
I’ve always been afraid of falling. Of making mistakes. Of being found to be less than perfect. Why? Even though I was told countless times through words that mistakes can make me stronger, that failure is part of learning, yet somehow my heart heard a different message. It may not have been through spoken words […]
A Hope and A Promise
When there is a truth we have buried deep inside us because it is too painful to acknowledge, it becomes an impediment to healing. And if we really decide to follow Christ, there will be times when He calls forth from the grave those forgotten parts of us – those parts we have exiled because […]
Wait (Don’t Strive) for Resurrection
“There should always be more waiting than striving in a Christian’s prayer.” – Everlyn Underhill Near the beginning of our journey, we move from apathy into caring about having a relationship with God. As we grow more attached to Christ and value this relationship, we will quite naturally become more intentional about deepening this relationship […]