Here’s Cheryl’s latest digital craftwork to celebrate four years of keeping the promise to each other and to God. Incidentally, our conversation this morning: “Can you hand me a fresh nappy?” “Sure!” “Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together!” Psalm 34:3
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The playground of Eden, the patience of God
At 21 months old, our eldest daughter E amazes us. Each day she seems to pick up something new. I’ve been sitting here at the playground and she’s climbed each of the ladders (all different sizes) on her own, and slid down the slide (she loves it by the way, especially once she’s at the …
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What we did over the holidays
Happy New Year everyone! In no particular order, here’s some of the things we were able to do together while I was off work for the last two weeks (workplace had their annual production shutdown). Removed Facebook and Twitter from all my mobile devices. I browsed them instead on the desktop computer in our living …
Practices, James KA Smith and Christmas cards
I’m whetting by appetite for my next big read on worship – James KA Smith’s “Desiring the Kingdom” – by listening to his 2010 lecture at Calvin College in the US where he summarised the ideas from his book. His main idea is that humans aren’t primarily shaped by head knowledge but by their desires …
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Memories, flags, hostility and peace
It’s funny how some memories are etched in your mind more vividly than others. I remember one Sunday driving, with my late mum in the front passenger seat. I was 19 at time, still a new Christian. We were driving through Botany to drop her off at the Fo Guang Shan Temple in Flat Bush, …