Don’t you hate it when you miss bin day? (The day when the city council empties your own personal house bin once a week.) Especially when you’ve had extra rubbish from family being over and the bin is full! Then also it won’t get emptied now for two weeks because it is on a two-week cycle. Uggh!! This is where I become very inventive and really pedantic about using the recycling bin for all the recyclable items. And the extra strength to squash down items or use my art of packing really well. Sometimes, though, this can backfire on you because you pack everything in so tightly that when the…

I’ve been tired before but not tired like this for a long time. You know when your brain is not working well. You keep forgetting things, forgetting appointments not because of old age but because your brain is a little bit fried and does not know what day it is. That is jetlag. I was sitting in a prayer service the other day and was nodding off badly quite a few times. I was trying to stay awake but every few seconds felt my eyes close and my head start falling to my chest. It was time to rest. That deep rest that my mind, body and spirit really needed.…

Sometimes you feel so alone. Even in amongst a crowd, you can often feel isolated. As if no one knows what you are going through, how you are feeling, how you don’t seem to have any support. At these times I can tend to isolate myself even more and feel like woah is me. But I’ve been learning to lean into God more on those days. To get more of the nourishment I need from Him for I have been learning more that: “He is here, and I am here with him.” That His presence lives within me and is so close. He knows what is happening. He cares about…

I had flown over 2 flights for 12 hours and when I hobbled off the plane because my body was all stiff, as soon as I could, I was crawling into bed. I recognize in myself now that I need a “down day” if I have travelled a bit the day before. I know myself. But more than knowing my physical body over the years, because of my relationship with Jesus, I have come to know my heart and recognize my flaws. It states in the book of Psalms: Search me, God, and know my heart;    test me and know my anxious thoughts.See if there is any offensive way in me,    and lead me in…

Bruce and I have been travelling, meeting new friends, old friends. Catching up where possible with some Impacters groups, those part of our spiritual family. As I meet more people from different backgrounds I am reminded of Paul the Apostle where he shares in 1 Corinthians 9 that he adapts himself, his argument, his way of sharing with people so that those particular listeners can hear the gospel. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, so that I…