I am reading Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly. She quotes Global activist Lynne Twist who, in her book The Soul of Money, refers to scarcity as “the great lie”. Twist writes, “For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is, “I … [Continue reading]
Julia Cameron’s The Writing Diet
I am reading Julia Cameron’s The Writing Diet. Cameron says we over-eat and gain weight when “something is eating us.” A lot of emotion gets displaced onto food. We use food to feed our emotions and our minds and spirits, instead of our physical … [Continue reading]
A Very Long Pregnancy: Or, How to Live in the Land of Unfulfilled Promises and Deferred Dreams
The early chapters of Abraham’s story make painful reading. Again and again, through the decades God promises him a child: At the great oak of Moreh at Shechem, when he was 75; at Bethel, when he lets his nephew Lot have the more fertile … [Continue reading]
St. Albans Church, Odense, Funen, Denmark.
Well, Roy is working on the gargantuan task of organising 24 years of photographs of our lives together. Here are some images from a cool Church we visited last summer in Denmark. Irene broke her arm, and was shattered not be going to her Adventure … [Continue reading]
On the Cwmbran Outpouring (or the 2013 Welsh Revival), The Wild Goose of the Holy Spirit & Waterfalls
The Celts called the Holy Spirit “Ah Geadh-Glas,” The Wild Goose. And if you wanted to encounter this wild goose? Well, you absolutely could stay in your living room, leave the windows open, and hope he’ll fly in. The world (and Scripture) is full … [Continue reading]
Bodnant Gardens, Wales, on a Perfect Late Spring Day
(Guest post by Roy Mathias) We were lucky to have perfect weather on our visit to Bodnant Gardens. Bodnant Garden is on a hill. At the top is the house, then on the terrace below is the Italian Garden, below that the large pond, below that the … [Continue reading]
Comfort Eating, Emotional Eating, Compulsive Eating: Goodbye to All That
Continued from In which I seek healing, and the healer says, Rise, take up your pallet, and walk. So for ten days now, I have not had sugar or white flour (deciding to cut just these two things from my diet for starters) and have not eaten when I … [Continue reading]
At the Cwmbran Outpouring, I am Healed as the Healer says, “Rise, Take up your Pallet & Walk” (Part 1 of 2)
Oddly enough, given that I am middle-aged, this is a period of steady change as I invite Jesus to turn his laser-sharp eyes on area after area of my life (ouch!). Orderly housekeeping which used to be an issue bit of a disaster has been … [Continue reading]
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