Even as I write this, I feel rather embarrassed. It’s almost like I’m making a big deal out of nothing. Like I’m a whiny child. I feel I ought to not let it affect me. To be the bigger person and forgive and forget and all that jazz. So why am I letting petty problems…
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Unfurling Creativity
*This article was first published on Indiaanya. We’re almost midway through this year and as I look back over the last four months, I can only stand amazed at what God has begun doing in my life. It seems a bit surreal to say this but I’m an artist. It still feels extremely new and…
The Art of Tea and Conversation
*This article was first published on Indiaanya. How do you have a good conversation? That was the topic for this month and as I mulled it over, I wondered about the conversations I have each day and I realised something. Most of my conversations were very superficial. I was coasting through life barely skimming the…
When Faith Dies
*This post was first published on Indiaanya. 2021 was the worst year in all my 39 years on this planet. It ripped me apart in more ways than one. It tore through my defences. It attacked my marriage and children. But, worst of all – it disintegrated my faith. It left me adrift and lonely,…
What a Season of Loss Taught Me About Grief
*This post was first published on Indiaanya. Grief and sadness come to all of us. None of us are beyond its scope. It meets us on the road of life, sometimes blindsiding us in its suddenness, urgency, and magnitude. It leaves us floundering in a morass of pain and despair, weighed down until we feel…
Desperate Longing
Psalm 130 is a heart cry. From the depths of desperation and pain, the psalmist pens a prayer that has echoed the heart cries of thousands of God’s children down the ages. I love this psalm for its honesty and transparency. This prayer lays it all out there and pleads, this is me—sin-riddled and depraved—now…
My Sister. My Friend.
This picture to me encapsulates the sibling relationship – that unique bond, wrought in love, friendship, and rivalry that cannot be replicated or replaced. I have a younger sister and this picture pretty much sums up our personalities and our relationship. Her extroverted exuberance and merry amiability is the perfect foil for my introverted calmness…
Last Time
It will be The last time Pain courses through my veins Despair drags down my soul Grief rips apart my heart It will be The last time Fear chains my mind Anger fuels my words Doubt shakes my faith It will be The last time Shame washes over me Guilt hinders my progress Disobedience robs…
The Set of the Sail
“We cannot know God by thinking alone, but we can never know Him very well without a lot of hard thinking.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer Have you ever met a writer who made you think? I’m not just talking about letting your imagination soar but rather, someone whose words really made you sit up and…
Are You Willing?
“Are you willing?” You asked And I, all unafraid, said yes, of course! I was praying for revival, a shaking up of the Church, a desire for deeper intimacy with You. Then I heard You ask me the question again—quietly and solemnly—”Are you willing?” And this time, something told me to beware, to think this…
Legacy of a Pack Rat
I was nominated for a book cover challenge on Instagram recently. For 7 days I needed to post the covers of 7 books. The catch was no reviews, no explanations, just the cover. The aim was to promote literacy and the love of good books. I was thoroughly thrilled to do the challenge. But it…
The Plague Song
Help, Lord God, help in this trouble! I think death is at the door. Stand before me, Christ, for You have overcome him. To You I cry: If it is Your will, take out the dart that wounds me, nor lets me have an hour’s rest or repose. Will You, however, that death take me…
Surrounded
The day is past. The night has come. And in the darkness cloaked silence those thoughts come crawling out, circling, gnawing, and preying on me. The ones that were too ghastly to utter in the light of day. The ones that menacingly threatened to meet me in the dark of night as they flitted past….
On Choosing To Obey
“The wise man built his house upon the rock. The wise man built his house upon the rock. The wise man built his house upon the rock. And the rain came tumbling down…” As a child I sang this song in Sunday School a million times, and now I hear my daughter sing it a…
How Do I Love Thee … Let Me Count The Ways …
**This post first appeared on Indiaanya** Love – poets have written about it, musicians have sung about it, and artists have painted about it. The emotion has been well documented, researched, examined, experienced and yet, humankind only seems to scratch the surface. The more you study it, the more you find to study. No wonder God…
Do The Next Thing
At an old English parsonage down by the sea, there came in the twilight a message to me. Its quaint Saxon legend deeply engraven that, as it seems to me, teaching from heaven. And all through the hours the quiet words ring, like a low inspiration, ‘Do the next thing.’ Many a questioning, many a…
Let’s Get Off Our High Horses Shall We
C. S. Lewis once said to his goddaughter – “…some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” Surprisingly, I found that to be true in my own life when I re-read The Chronicles of Narnia in my early-twenties. I actually appreciated them more whilst reading them as an adult than…
What’s The Rush?
I wish I could grab Time by the shirt tails and get him to stand still. Life seems to be rushing past; I can barely catch my breath. I have so many half-done and undone jobs that I feel like my mind will explode. So many balls in the air that some are definitely going…
Ready And Waiting
So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” Hebrews 13:6 This is one of those verses in the Bible that sound so familiar that they are overlooked or fall by the wayside due to overuse. Even as I read it the other day,…
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