Mountains and Valleys

Have you ever had anybody preach to you about mountains and valleys? Mountaintop experiences?
Ever since I was a teenager, it’s been a favourite pull-it-out-of-the-drawer-and-dust-it-off sermon for many who grace the church platform.
I have come to the very considered opinion that it sucks.
When you’re on a “mountain”, enjoying God, loving life, on top of the [...]

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The Wedding

As I posted the other day, I have just been to a wedding.  We all had the most fantastic time.  I thought I’d blog a little about it.  This is a personal blog post – I’m not really here to make a point today.  Just so you know, and you don’t finish reading and think [...]

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Directions

After all the discussion about vision statements, my own community has just come out with something of a statement that I believe warrants some attention.
It’s been dubbed “Our Values”, and it’s been put forward to us to ponder and discuss.  It’s just up for discussion at the moment – nothing has been implemented, but we’re [...]

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The Wise Words of Jesus (and why I need them so much) – part 1

Matthew 6:34:
So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
I find it so easy to worry.  In fact, I have it down to a science.  In my recent game of job-switcheroo I managed to worry myself to the point where I didn’t sleep a full night [...]

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Disclaimer

According to Barb, among others I need to post a disclaimer on my site.  Here is her suggestion:
Beware all who land on this site. This site may enable you to see truth for the first time. Seeing truth may be just what you are looking for but you need to be careful. Once you have tasted truth [...]

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Mosaics, Terrorists and other fun stuff

Sonja at Calacirian has been making mosaics, and it looked like fun!
Here’s how it’s done:
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a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.
The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. [...]

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How weird is too weird?

I’ve probably been reading far to much FSTDT, but I have been wondering about something lately.
With all the weird people around saying they’re being “persecuted for Christ” and living a completely separated lifestyle, it got me to thinking – how weird is too weird?  As followers of Christ, are we called to be different in a way [...]

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The dark side

Some words from Missy Higgins from the song “Nightminds”:
Just lay it all down. Put your face into my neck and let it fall out.
I know, I know, I know. I knew before you got home.
This world you’re in now,
It doesn’t have to be alone, I’ll get there somehow,
‘cos I know I know I know
When even [...]

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Wordle-ordle-ordle

Some people have been Wordling this week.
I’m probably horribly behind, but I’d never discovered Wordle before.  I like!
Since I felt compelled to play, here is my effort, based around Community.  Enjoy!  Or ridicule.  Whatever. 
Oh, and for the record, I did mine before I saw Jamie’s and Cindy’s, but after I saw Makeesha’s and [...]

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The Lines

On Sunday my husband, our girls and I sat down and watched Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium together.  It’s a beautiful movie, but one thing stood out to me.
Early on, Molly Mahoney is colouring in with a child in the store.  She whispers conspiratorially to him:
“No matter what they tell you, you don’t have to stay inside [...]

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Stuff

Sorry I’ve been rather quiet this week. My life has been a little crazy, for several reasons.
1. I have decided to start my own business, doing design of websites, logos, etc. More details to come, but I sent in a form to the relevant authority yesterday to register a business name. Sooooooo excited!
2. I spent several days [...]

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A completely self-indulgent post

It’s my birthday, so I am treating myself to a completely self-indulgent post.  Yes, this is all about ME!
Today I am thirty.  I have become an old woman, so I probably should start growing up.  Well, I can make a good impression of it for today, anyway. 
This morning my children woke me up [...]

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Milk, anybody?

The other day I watched a Michael Frost DVD from the 2008 Forge Grassroots conference.  Mike always seems to say something profound that makes me sit up and listen.  This was no exception.
Hebrews 5:11-14 says
There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually [...]

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Gone AWOL

 
Real life beckons for today.
Nothing serious or important, just stuff.
I’ll be back soon.

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A Worldview

I found this on Sarah’s blog.

Is it a fair representation?
Too simplistic?  Missing important stuff?
Anything else you’d add?
Anything you’d take away?

Just wondering what you all think.

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A Manifesto For Church

I’ve been tagged by Barry to write about what a good church should look like.  I had to think about it long and hard.  I’m not much of a visionary.
However, what I came up with was this:
1. Church should be fundamentally and foundationally missional.  We are a sent people, every single one of us.  The entire [...]

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Happiness?

I saw this music video on TV on Saturday morning, and I found it really interesting.  Thought I’d post it here and see what you all think of it.

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Still broken…

I’m a broken person. A collection of smashed pieces. I used to think God fixed the broken and made things perfect and whole. Now I’m not so sure.
I think it’s more like he holds a candle in such a way that it illuminates all those broken pieces, so the light shines through and makes them [...]

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Fear of God?

I had dinner with Lee last night.  It was such a great time of venting, encouraging and discussing.  I love it when we get together and talk about everything under the sun.
One of the things that came up was the fear that I used to feel.  Not fear of God as in the awe-inspiring kind, [...]

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An Unequal Blessing

A couple of people around the place have been commenting on God’s blessing lately – specifically Grace and Cynthia talking about the “Lakeland Revival“.
It got me to thinking, as posts from Grace and Cynthia often do.
How does the blessing of God work?  Why does it fall so unequally on those who need it most and so [...]

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