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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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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“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 …
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 …
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. …
Ever had a nagging voice over your shoulder as you write? You know the one. The one that comes up with all the unflattering reasons why you should just give up. ‘You’re unoriginal. You’re reinventing the wheel, and not well. It’s Been Done. You’re mediocre. This isn’t coming together. You don’t have what it takes.’ …
One of my favourite verses in the Bible is Ephesians 3:20: Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us. It’s a verse that is very personal and dear to me. And one that I have recited and …
Hebrews 4 verse 16: (NIV) Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. For some reason, grace, in it’s many forms, has turned up in my world in big and little ways recently. I guess grace …
Some people like to blend in, and others–like myself–chase the lure of standing out. I’d like us to look at both of these today. A friend shared a Bible verse which got me thinking about how I view and present myself. He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30 KJV So often in life …
At the end of last month we welcomed our eleventh great-grand child. A little premature, he has needed some assistance with breathing and feeding, but he’s a good size and just gorgeous. Not that I’m biased. We’ve welcomed eight new great-grandchildren in the last three years. Blessing upon blessing. As I watch them crawling, toddling …
