Dinah’s story like so many girls and women throughout history is not easy to hear and is wider than the events that happen simply to her. It is twisted and complex. It doesn’t make easy reading and raises questions as to whose side we are supposed to be on. Rape is on all counts wrongContinue reading “A Lenten Afternoon with Dinah”
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A Lenten Afternoon with Leah
This is when I come face to face my hypocrisy. It was uncomfortable with Rebekah and Rachel but there was outward beauty with them. Maybe if people saw me with them they would think I was beautiful too. Leah less so. Do I want to be seen with plain Leah. Yet she doesn’t need myContinue reading “A Lenten Afternoon with Leah”
An Lenten Evening catch up with Rebekah and Rachel
Its not a comfortable catch up. I don’t look up to Rebekah and Rachel as mothers of the faith to emulate. I see their choices, their actions and I judge. Not outwardly, but inwardly I tell myself that I don’t act like them, that I am better than them. I lift myself up, my whitewashedContinue reading “An Lenten Evening catch up with Rebekah and Rachel”
A Lenten Afternoon with Hagar
She may not be in my circle of friends, she is a servant. I may not keep servants but neither am I one, so she is not in my circle. Yet she comes this afternoon to sit with me and has someone she wants me to see, to meet. She wants me to meet God,Continue reading “A Lenten Afternoon with Hagar”
A Lenten afternoon with Sarai
Abram’s wife is my companion this damp grey afternoon. Ros Clarke speaks to Sarai’s infertility, to her use of Hagar, to her mistreatment of Hagar. How easy it is for us to take matters into our own hands. Even when the initial vision, promise is from God and His word that He will bring somethingContinue reading “A Lenten afternoon with Sarai”
Lent begins
Lent like Advent is a time of preparation, of moving toward the fulfillment of the waiting and longing. We might mark it with pancakes yesterday for Shrove Tuesday. Those within certain faith communities may receive ash today. For many though its just another day with a nagging guilt that we should give something up forContinue reading “Lent begins”
A book to read
After a number of years of reading for study and then reading to children and about parenting, life has come back around and I have books for myself on my bedside table. None though have given me a language that makes sense of my inner battles. None ever mirrored myself back to me, I wasContinue reading “A book to read”
God our Helper
In this section of Isaiah 41 I’ve struggled a bit more. I had one blog post almost written before I realised it was my rant at news making headlines in the Christian world. And Isaiah wasn’t written to fuel my rants. My struggle is a bit odd in fact, as these verses are fundamentally reassurance.Continue reading “God our Helper”
Christmas, an interruption to our plans
I was struck in a conversation this morning of how Christmas is hard for bedtime routines with young children and how we all look forward to resetting the routine afterwards. That sense that Christmas is actually an inconvenience to our routine, our children’s routine and that it would be easier to skip over it.* ThenContinue reading “Christmas, an interruption to our plans”
The longer road
For many of us in leadership we have a desire to help others, encourage others, to see them grow. The problems comes when they don’t grow the way we envisioned, in other words jumping in our boat and signing on as ‘yes’ folk to our plans. The problems come when the stories are more complexContinue reading “The longer road”
Joshua's Tree Rooted 