Sharon and I got married on Matariki Day, Friday 20th June. Here is a recording of the service Order of service Order of service Psalm 13: 5,6 But I trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt […]
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I Remember I remember From this day The little gifts Left along the way I remember the silence I remember the sounds Little dog ears Even there you are found I add them all up When my mind starts to wander To places of fear Despondency bondage I’m growing […]
Christmas can have dark shadows, but what if God came close? God can provide a comfort at Christmas. As I write this, I think of someone I know that has had a death in their family. It’s a loss, a grief, a tearing of relationship. Christmas. Will it be […]
Are you scared to receive? To receive might just undo a carefully constructed sense of being in control, but little drops of love open the rustiest of doors. I know someone who is very generous to me. In fact, this website and my ability to get content out is only […]
Ive had more than enough of being held in contempt, but when I know divine approval, I can rise again. It was like they were at the bottom of the pecking order and being held there. People had contempt for them. The word ‘contempt’ is one we don’t often […]
I’ve often heard the words ‘They will never change’, but what if God’s Spirit grabbed them? What if resurrection light was invited to glow? There’s always have a chink in my spirit when I hear the words ‘They will never change.’ Alongside those words may come phrases such as ‘A […]
There comes a time and a place when you say, ‘I don’t need this in my life anymore. That you have options. You are worthy of more than this. It had gone on too long and what was actually abnormal had now become the norm. She had been morphed […]
It’s a broken world where we desperately need hope, but God is compassion, and so we get to live again. The other day I found some mouse droppings in my kitchen. Concerned about the hygiene of the kitchen, I set a trap. Peanut butter would be the temptation that […]
We often think we can’t do much to change the situations we are in but by being faithful with the little we have we can move mountains. It’s the little things that give you away. It seemed such a small thing. I remember my parents’ daily little habit of reading […]
It’s a long way from there to there. Stuck in the middle, we have emotional pain, but we can also have presence. A comfort to the pain of now. They wanted some relief. It wasn’t so much the highs and lows of a roller coaster; it was more like dragging […]