There are things about me that I don’t want others to see. In fact, I probably don’t want to see them myself. There is a resistance to go “there,” but I have a good shepherd who keeps calling me back to an ancient path intersection. A place where there is […]
A Wellness Path
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I was brought up on a sheep farm, and one of the most fascinating features of that farm was the tracks the sheep made across the paddocks. Right in the middle of a field, you’d find this narrow, well-worn path — pressed down by hundreds of hooves, over and over, […]
Escape tick-box prayer and comparisonitis. Discover the ancient path that invites you to pray more and do less. We do like to get things done, don’t we? It feels satisfying to cross things off a list, to put a tick next to that item. I use paper and pen for […]
Feeling worse before better? Discover the ancient path of down before up. I once saw this very funny cartoon. The first image showed a nice ‘up and to the right’ graph displaying how we think life should work. Progress, easy, smooth, success and without any struggle or challenge. The next […]
Tired of pretending instead of being real? Discover the ancient path of honesty — one millimetre step at a time. I watched a movie the other day called ‘Rental Family’. It stars Brendan Fraser as an American actor based in Japan who begins working for an acting agency, where he […]
There’s an ancient path — one worn into the ground over thousands of years, easy to trust because so many have walked it before you. I was watching a program on TV about elephants. The Elephant Queen. It tells the journey of a family of elephants in the African savannah, […]
Quick answer: When someone won’t listen to another opinion, arguing rarely helps. A simple pen-and-paper exercise called “two trees” — where you and the other person each draw a tree, then notice that both are valid even though they look different — can open a locked mindset by making the […]
Feeling broken inside? Discover the birth pangs metaphor from Romans 8 and find hope in the sacred waiting between now and not yet. I’ve felt a groan recently. A groan that is happening right now. A groan that longs for something more. I hear it in the conversations I have. […]
Lose your true self to others? Explore the cup metaphor of self-love, break codependency patterns, and embrace how God uniquely made you. It was a gradual decline. Slowly they lost interest, but like a boulder rolling down a hill, it gained momentum until it was seemingly unstoppable. They had lost […]
It felt like they were trying to earn my approval, my love, my acceptance. That if they just did things right, then I would give them some sort of a royal nod of approval. Earned love, I believe, is not really love. Earned acceptance and approval always has this fear […]