As the saying goes, ‘Practice makes perfect’ but practice can never make anything perfect. We live in a flawed, imperfect world and practice and perfection cannot coexist because one will inevitably cancel out the other. Perfect is about avoiding mistakes in the process of practice and the sense that everything needs to be perfect before …
Author Archives: Wendy Parker
Clearing Out The Clutter
A few years ago, I decided I would become a minimalist. Inspired one evening after watching a Netflix documentary about how to live a simplistic and minimal lifestyle. I eyed up, and stared down every object, every article of clothing and each gizmo we had collected and accumulated over the years because this mamma bear …
Somewhere You’ve Not Been Before
Perhaps this year you’ve decided that you’re going to diligently stick to the known path you’ve always been on because that’s where you feel safest. Your reasoning is that you’ve realised that dream, that call, that purpose you constantly think about has only led you down dead ends and diversions and there is no point …
Busyness Gives Us Nothing
What message has God wanted to tell you lately but you’ve been too busy to stop and take the time to listen to Him? It’s crazy, but we give all our attention to busyness and what does busyness give us in return? I’ll tell you, absolutely nothing. That’s right, zip, narder, diddly squat. Busyness is like a …
Next Courageous Step
What does your next courageous step look like? It’s different for everyone but the chasm to cross still looks the same – Scary. That enormous gap, that gigantic step, the massive move you need to make between where you would like to be and where you actually are always feels way too wild, too crazy, …
Great Expectations
After three years of not meeting together, most writers held great expectations of what the Omega Writers Conference would look like this year. I have to say, by day one my expectations had been exceeded and I still had two more days of the conference to go! It felt like a big reunion at the …
The Oil Of Gilead
My friend and I were having coffee together a couple of weeks ago and during the conversation, she said, “I cannot wait to hold your new book in my hands and listen for the ‘crack’ as I open up the first page and start reading it.” Unbeknown to my friend, she had put words to …
Properly Loved
Love. Why is it the first of the fruits mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23? Well, I believe it’s no accident that the Spirit placed it first on the list because unless we love first and know that we are loved, all the other fruit of joy, peace, patience, kind-heartedness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control will not grow in …
A Different Kind Of Person
Nehemiah. Well known for being the great leader with a great vision who rebuilt Jerusalem’s walls in the Old Testament. Reading this story, we tend to get swept away by the political, social, and religious interaction between Tobias and Sanballat, who are opposed to the restoration of Jerusalem’s people. Not willing to let up on …
The Red Blanket Strategy Of Discontent
Did you know that a matador uses a red blanket called a muleta to distract a bull in the final stages of the fight? This distraction of a red blanket hanging from a stick is only used as a diversion to cover up and obscure the bullfighter’s sword. Like the bull, we as believers can …