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 …
Category Archives: Devotional
Devotional: Is the New Year Already Old?
The old year goes out with fanfare. Restaurants create elaborate menus for New Year’s Eve dinners. Shopkeepers dress their windows using party clothes to entice customers to buy their sparkly offerings. Friends and family ask, “What are you doing for New Year’s Eve?” In New York City, crowds stand for hours in Times Square waiting …
Devotional | Finding Freedom in God’s Directives
Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Saviour, and my hope is in you all day long.- Psalm 25:4-5 NIV Did you set resolutions at the beginning of the year? If so, how are they going? Gone are the days …
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Devotional | In The Storm
A devotion by Karen Rees “Without warning, a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping.” Matt 8:24 As an author, I know readers want stories filled with conflict, crisis, and danger. In contrast, we like our lives to be basically predictable, free of …
DEVOTIONAL: Finding Courage to Trust God
This might not be a popular statement, but I find it hard to trust God sometimes. And I sometimes find it hard to build up the courage to do what He is asking me to do. As believers, we are to trust God and show courage in the face of hard decisions and situations. Easier …
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 …
My Word for 2023: Less
Happy New Year! It’s the time of year when many people resolve to implement new habits to improve themselves. We resolve to lose weight, exercise more, eat better. If we’re Christians, we resolve to read the Bible more or pray more or be more involved in church. More, more, more. We live in a society …
Devotional | Gratitude and Grace
On the 9th of December 2022, it marked 2,287 days since God declared healing over me. I spent some time reflecting on the previous day…… It had started out wonderfully I had a dream where I sensed God’s presence so strongly and I was greatly encouraged, but by the afternoon I was in a state …
Devotional | Changing Times – An Unchanging God
Devotional by Karen Rees “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock in whom I take refuge.” Psalms 18:2 The Mt. Pinatubo volcano erupted in the Philippines in June, 1991. In a matter of days, villages, rice fields and roads were buried under thousands of tons of pale …
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Devotional | The Incarnational *ADVENT*ure
There’s something about Christmas. People from all walks of life suddenly start decorating their homes garishly, wearing garments they would otherwise never dream of endorsing, putting trees inside their houses instead of outside where they belong, singing in public, and making plans to cook a very specific set of foods. A whole host of traditions, coming …
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