Our travels are nearly over for this season. God’s provision has simply been God-smackingly good (Not gob-smackingly), as only God can be. His gift of provision of all that we would need on this trip was supplied to us every day. His gift of His presence was in every meeting we went to, on every step of our journey. His gift of faithfulness to His promises, especially the promise found in Matthew chapter 6. Starting with Verse 25 (Bruce and my Gospel reading at our wedding): And I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you will eat, nor about your body, as to…

You organize, plan, account for time for everything in the day, at least I do, and especially when I have a day to myself. Ok, I will first sleep in. Yes, I heard that sigh from many of you jealous of me – I get it! Then I’ll next get onto the washing that needs to be done. Then I’ll go to the room we will be using tonight to check that it had all been set up correctly.  From there I’ll go and have a breakfast coffee, then I’ll read and pray and write. I have nothing else on my agenda until the evening for Bruce was busy in…

It was an early morning start. Left the hotel at 5.30am to go to the airport and catch the plane to our next destination. I was already tired from previous flights and lack of sleep. We arrive in heaps of time for the flight, but it is delayed leaving by an hour due to a malfunctioning toilet door! Then when we are all onboard, the announcement states that the forward door is closed and get ready for take-off. After waiting a few minutes, the pilot announces there will be a delay while they look for the other load of baggage on a trolley somewhere???? After about half an hour the…

Something really struck me the other day when I was listening to a bible story that I’ve heard many times before. I remember as a child colouring in a depiction of the story. The story of Zacchaeus. A tax collector, actually a senior tax collector, who collected taxes for the Romans from the Jewish people. He was a Jew himself but used to skim an amount of money over and above the tax amount for himself.  He had become very wealthy due to this dishonest act. So hence no one liked him. Now Zacchaeus had heard that Jesus was coming through his town Jericho. Something about Zacchaeus’ behaviour surprised me.…

The other day I read two very funny stories or memes about two saints we would recognize by name. The first is Saint Anthony. “Saint Anthony asks God what He did to deserve an eternity of looking for Everyone’s Car keys.” When I read this, I chuckled. Why the Saint for Lost things? It made me wonder. Supposedly it all goes back to a story from his life. A novice stole a book of Psalms that belonged to him. St Anthony prayed to God for it to be recovered, the novice returned the book.  So, in our prayers to him (to any saint) we are invoking the aid of the…