CULTIVATING KINDNESS In October this year, I chose kindness. There were other options. I could have gone with joy, or faith, or love, or happy. No, that isn’t a typo or an errant autocorrect. I don’t mean happiness. The exact word was happy. I wasn’t deciding what emotion to feel, but which to buy. The …
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DEVOTIONS: Remembering Jesus is our reason for the season
Today we are reposting a Christmas devotion from 2019. Just as relevant today as when it was first posted. And just like that, Christmas is only a few sleeps away. Christmas trees are flickering their bright lights. Tinsel is hung up all over the place and all the old family recipes are being retrieved from drawers …
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Devotional | God will finish what He has started
Philippians Chapter 1 verse 6 (NIV)..being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. It feels like the word completion has more meaning attached to it right now. In a few days, on Tuesday the 2/12/2025, my husband and …
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Devotional | A Precious Message
As an author, speaker, or your average Christian trying to share the gospel with someone, it’s hard to know how to please God and not chase the praise of men. I mean, if you aren’t relatable, likeable, or at least moderately proficient, no one will hear the precious message entrusted to you to share. So, …
Devotional | ‘Potential Faces the Storm’
As I took this picture, I titled it Potential. So much promise of a dark beautiful flower. But behind me built dark menacing storm clouds in agreement with dire warnings and promises of hail. So much obvious potential in the emerging flower but would it survive the threatening storm. Jesus said ‘In this world you …
Devotional | Reflections in Ecclesiastes: Learning to Trust God’s Timing
I know that, whatever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. Ecclesiastes 3:14 When the choice lies between God’s timing and our own, how often do we succumb to our own desires? If we were to live entirely according to God’s timing and plans, we …
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Devotional | Relationship is where it’s at
If I was to ask you to nominate your best feature, what would you say? For me, I would say my legs. I have GREAT legs. I haven’t always felt that way, but that all changed when someone who doesn’t lie – someone I trust – told me so. When I was at school, I was …
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Devotional | Seeking the Light
“Let your light shine…” – Matthew 5:16 God often speaks to me through nature, and after a long, wet winter on the eastern seaboard, I’m excited at the arrival of spring in Australia. There are clues everywhere that what lay dormant for months on end, is now bursting forth from its winter home. The first …
Stabat Mater: The Sorrowful Mother
Last week, I attended a New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s performance of two works based on the Stabat Mater, a thirteenth-century poem/hymn based on the suffering of Mary as she watched Jesus’s death on the cross. The first Stabat Mater was by Rossini, a nineteenth-century Italian composer, with the orchestra backed by a choir and featuring …
Devotional | No Fear!
In my previous devotional “Two Truths” I mentioned how I had some really intense chest pains and then 2 days later I had heart palpitations, my heart was racing and it felt like it was booming out of my chest. I also noticed that my heart would boom, boom, boom and then take a pause. …