a willing response to life

faith = the willing responsiveness and involvement of a free person.
each morning we wake up to a world
broken, fallen and wondrous
and into a life laid out before us by God
so that we can participate with God and live in the world but not of it
it’s called the Grace of God … living in the stream [...]

A thief on the cross, last minute paradise seeker

Gifts for enjoyment from you, I use to make a life for me
Hunger for reward, compensation or entertainment becomes my path to wellbeing
Selfishly I misbehave and reject forbearance
My world creaks and crumbles under the strain of a home made life
The damage of dysfunction is upon me and before I realise it I’m losing life
Following your [...]

Living by revelation

I have always lived by what was explained to me, what I was told, learned or understood.
However as my journey of faith moves onward I discover that I can also live by what is revealed to me, by God and most often through my ordinary everyday life.
I offer to share some of these revelations with [...]

peace in death, peace in life

Does peace come only when everything in my world is in fact dead
or does peace come when everything in my world is dead to me and I dead to it
Is it then and only then that I can in fact live the life you have for me.

reflection for January

Dropping out and being found
Your life to me is continuous. My experience of your life could be continuous but it’s not.
I drop out, wander out. I break out or I just find myself out. But even when I’m out you are out looking for me like the lost son, ready to embrace and throw a [...]

A short audio introduction

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a short audio introduction
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