Maybe like me, you’ve never thought about this… But here goes: Jesus talks about us being like branches that produce good fruit. (John 15) God is the gardener. Photo by Irena Carpaccio on Unsplash...
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Time to Triage
Have you ever had a list that felt endless? Where the tasks pile so high, that you can’t see the top? I can’t remember who said it to me, but it has returned to me many, many times over. As I sat at...
A Burnt Muffin Kind of Day
.Racing about the kitchen lounge room, madly cleaning between meetings and ticking off from my pages of to-do lists, I suddenly had the maternal urge to bake my children some muffins - the bananas...
Finalist Wins and Humbled Hearts
A little win to share with you today... In marketing a book, they encourage you to apply for awards. My book series, 'Be Held By Him - Finding God When Life Knocks You Off Your Feet,' had a couple...
Way Through The Wall!
Have you ever had a WALL in front of you? It might not be a physical, double brick blockage - maybe it's a place of frustration, a bone of contention, a theme, a season. Whatever it might be, I have...
2 New Trees and some blessings
This week I planted 2 trees. I ordered these trees a month ago, and they finally arrived. As I shared with my precious sis-in-law about the trees and life - she said something so...
What’s so good about Good Friday?
It's Good Friday today here in Melbourne. And I got to thinking, what makes Good Friday....well...good?I mean, Jesus went through unimaginable agony and pain. He didn't do a thing wrong, and here he...
9 Long Years; A New Door and New Season!
9 Long Years; A New Door and New Season – Seasons of Patience are being Rewarded! Who believes in the natural things, sometimes representing what is happening in the spiritual? Well, have I got a...
Chance Miracle Meeting (& some God sugar)
It had been a sour week and I craved a little kindness, a little gentle, a little sweet. Family tough with multiple members unwell, living in mystery, and depleting fast - sour The tanks were...
Piano Tuner Revelation
We were given an ancient piano - 1871-1880 It sounded fine to us, but to any trained ear, it was as flat as a tack. No one wanted the job. "It's too old. Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash We'd be...
Why Say Yes?
"I need you to baptize me, John." "What? I can't do that. What good is there in me, that I could baptize you, Jesus? You should be baptizing me." "It is fitting that you do this thing," Jesus gently...
For the dry, depleted, soul-weary, fatigued ones – What does God say about the pause button feeling?
It's been a hard, tiring season, but there is HOPE, there IS a way forward. Come to me all you who are weary and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 The past couple of years has been intense....
Stretch Armstrong
Rush rush rush Scurry scurry scurry Time for a breath. Meet Stretch Armstrong. As a kid, I saw and marveled at his stretchability. The way within seconds his knotted, stretched, pliable body was...
You remember my name
Reading 1 Chronicles 14 this morning and it HIT me! The names of the children born to David. Shammau, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japia, Elishama, Beeliada and...
Hope for this MEH time! Thankyou God!
This week has been relentless...anyone else? Medical tests, coming out of our 5th lockdown, a weariness that is hard to put words to. Meh! or Blah! seems to just about cover it. Photo...
Fountain of hope
Had a hard week?Received some bad news?Someone kindly gave me this life buoy amid my own challenge.We have 2 choices when terrible comes.1. Be overcome by the circumstance.2. Choose to walk forward...
Beautiful Encounter 9.
God redeems pain…
It occurred to me over the weekend that in life we experience much pain. In fact God alerted me to my own periods of pain. 3 kids, 3 labours, relationship hurts, body sufferings, family...
What is “the” answer?
I just returned from my first visit to see a Clinical Social Worker. My inner world crashed in this crazy paced season and I needed to chat to someone who could help me work it all out. I have just...
A little piece of heaven…
My Dad used to say something so wise to me as a kid...Treat others how you want to be treated. This past fortnight I've been pondering this in my heart and God has connected it with Kingdom Culture....