[ mites from our momentary marriage and ministry ]
It was sometime towards the end of last year that I realised that, in comparison to the hundreds of articles, blog posts and Facebook updates that I skim through on a daily basis, I wasn’t really doing very well with old-fashioned book reading. So this year we’ve tried to build it into our family routines more. …
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I’m writing this on E’s 2nd birthday. It’s starting to sink in that we have a two year old in our house – it feels like we have been parents forever, even though I know that’s not true! E is part of a growing group of super-intelligent beings known as girls. She is joined this …
I love how inquisitive our oldest daughter E is at the moment. She’s one month shy of her 2nd birthday, yet every day surprises us with a new word she’s learnt, or a new question she asks. Today at the supermarket (where she insists on carrying the basket herself, and getting a good upper-body workout …
Some of you know that at our church we’ve started a year-long project of memorising 10 hymns of the faith. I spent a few weeks getting the music and the hymn books together in preparation. We started our first one (In Christ Alone) at the beginning of March, and on Sunday (while I was worship …
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Since Friday, I’ve taken the step of becoming completely freelance. A bit of background: at the end of 2007 I graduated from Auckland Uni with two degrees but no idea how to use either of them (a common story). I then applied for a role as a graduate medical writer for a medical communications agency, …
