Preparations have started. Gifts are being added to my shopping trolley as the days advance towards Christmas Day. Phone calls are happening between family members so we can organize, at least starting to organize, whose house is it at this year. Most of us are travelling to Brisbane to have it for the first time in 35 years at the great grandparents house with most of  the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren  present. It is going to be bigger than Ben Hur. Soon the actual meals or food that your side of the family are bringing will be discussed. Who’s getting gifts and what are we getting them? In my…

God is so amazing, so other, so mind-boggling. On my best day, God is bigger than my best thoughts. On my better day the God I think about, I know about, is only part of the  shadow of who He truly is. I do not even scratch the surface as the saying goes. His ways are way above mine, his thoughts way higher, his abilities way more miraculous than I can ever imagine. His love is way deeper than I would go, than I would love, that I would even comprehend. None can compare to Him. Job, Paul the apostle, Isaiah the prophet all thought the same. In Romans 11:34, “For…

We come from such different backgrounds, different upbringing, different personalities, different nationalities, but we have One major bond. That of the Lord Jesus Christ. We all thirst. Thirst for Him. For more knowledge. For more of Him. For more experience of Him. For more worship of Him. For more clarity from Him. For more desire for Him. Our body, mind and spirit are in tune for more of Him. The desire won’t go away. We can try and ignore it. We can try and deaden the persistent sound. We can be laughed at. Ridiculed even by our own family. Discouraged by those we love to get ‘real’. To not be…

GODS LOVE – Walk into it and stay in it. It will change everything in your life about your life. And for the better. This is what entered my thoughts as I meditated and journaled and read. Everything that God is doing in our lives is intentionally relational. It’s all about Him and us. To walk with Him and with others, to Love Him and others. God’s love draws us deeper and His commitment to us never waivers. In every situation in life, God desires to give us himself – He can’t help it because He loves us. It started at the beginning of our existence and will go on…

Someone I know was describing a friend like this, “this woman was filled with God’s power, overwhelmed with His joy and consumed with His peace.” What a compliment! Then it goes on to say, “She heard God’s voice on a regular basis and was seeing evidence of His presence in the regular rhythms of her life.” Oh, to be described like this – what Faith! What a relationship with her God! She would pray and then believe. Expect and then see. Ask and then receive. “HOW WHAT SHE’D LEARNED ON THE PEW HAD BECOME SUCH A STARTLING REALITY ON THE PAVEMENT OF HER LIFE.” Priscilla Shirer (One in a million)…