You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the Lord, have created it. (Isaiah 45 v 8) What a faithful God we serve. He is mine and I am His and His banner over me… Continue reading

Well, here we are, short days away from the expected time of delivery. Unlike reasonably reliable public transport schedules in the first world, this arrival is due any time now for another two weeks and there is a sense of needing to be constantly ready. And so we wait; and we clean. The baby will… Continue reading

Today’s post is written by a dear friend of mine. What a pleasure to welcome Narelle into this space. I hope you enjoy her words as much as I do, and that you are encouraged at the start of this new week. Narelle Henson writes at www.zambezikiwi.com. She’s a Kiwi who enjoys looking at the… Continue reading

I believe that if a person is on earth, they are here with a unique purpose and destiny. I believe that each one of us was created by hand, knitted together in the womb according to a pattern that will never again be replicated. People and their originality thrill my heart. Each body, soul and… Continue reading

A friend of ours, in her eighties, was telling us the other day about the year she went to high school. “Those were good times. The war was over and we didn’t have a care in the world,” she remarked. It got me thinking – nothing except heaven is going to last for eternity. There… Continue reading

The village was no longer a peaceful place filled with carefree inhabitants. Each night a villain of a giant came barging through the main street; taunting, jeering, pulling up lamp posts, snapping fences and eating whatever he might fancy on the day. Anything to get rid of his rage! People and animals quickly realised that… Continue reading

My little girl is not particularly friendly or out going with people she doesn’t know well. I often have to encourage her to overcome her shyness or remind her to say hello. I have noticed, though, that she has several grown ups in her life who absolutely adore her as she adores them. It’s as… Continue reading

What to write when one is tired and has left the morning’s post until the last minute again? I guess I could say that I have been doing what I said I would do when I didn’t make any new year’s resolutions. I have been going slower and taking more care to live in the… Continue reading

Sometimes fear stops us from doing the exact thing we need to be doing. We want to feel absolute peace and a sparkling sense of, “this is definitely right” before we make a move, but it is not often like that in real life. Many times the vastness of the step we need to take… Continue reading

A very Happy New Year to you all! The old one was only three hundred and sixty five days old, so hardly tired and worn out in the grand scheme of things. It was probably jam packed with beautiful times, so many things to be thankful for, miracles and blissful ordinary days. It was also,… Continue reading