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Heavy Wool
While I wait, I find myself wondering what I’m meant to learn and what God might be showing me in this season. Those are fair thoughts, but they can also make me overlook something obvious.
Somewhere Else
When I left New Zealand for Budapest, I stopped calling New Zealand home, but it definitely wasn’t from lack of love.
Scones and Gulls
If you know me, you know I’m not a details person. But in order to get where we need to go, they have to be sorted. So here I sit, rifling through papers, praying I don’t miss something important that could cost us dearly.
Ramblings of the Thrice-Coffeed Nomad
Since I’m thrice-coffeed (and my ramblings in this state can be hard to follow), I thought I’d make a small list of the things I’ve been noticing during our present wanderings. Scroll at your leisure, coffee optional, I shall not partake in another lest I completely write myself off.
The Hopeful Series: Redemption
God’s work often leads us through very painful and potentially damaging situations—and it is to Him that we must look for the healing way through.
The Hopeful Series: Faith
God is always directing, pivoting, and clearing ways for us when there seems to be no way, using painful situations to bring out that deep character that comes from abiding in Him.
Three Truths One Lie
We’ve been here in Budapest for three and a half years, so what have we learnt?
Temporary Visa
I’m finding hope in the idea of a new balance—one where a steady and happy home life can thrive alongside ministry.
Dirty Water
Natural talent is dynamic and breathtaking, but hard work and discipline can also hold their own. However, we usually dismiss that because it’s so, well, ordinary.
Running Towards Purpose
When we read the Bible and its laws, we should see them as God’s way of breaking down a big vision into achievable steps, both on a large scale and an individual level.
Dear Extroverts
It would be no exaggeration to say I haven’t truly been alone for a very long time. Since I was a young child, I've always craved companionship. In new situations, I would seek it out as soon as possible.
Grief Equals Failure and Other Lies
Now, I find myself on the precipice of another loss, feeling that familiar guilt and shame for my grief.
Guard Your Heart
When something painful wounds us, we need to handle it gently, taking care to assess and clean it out. But then healing needs to follow—hopefully with minimal scarring—but it definitely needs to happen.
Netball Courts
Why am I talking about netball courts and awkward prepubescent interactions? Because now, in 2024, at 36 years of age, I still feel the same way.
When Food Falls from the Sky
I don’t believe God stops talking. I think He’s speaking right now. But the noise of life and the voices in our head get in the way, and His whisper goes unheard.
Sabbath: A Quiet Rebellion
You’d be hard-pressed to find something more rebellious in today's age than sabbath.
Herringbone Floor
It’s ok, I think, to spend a few precious tears on yourself. It’s ok to do it dramatically on the floor, to show just how low things have physically gotten. God sees that too.
Trees and Cups
My city doesn’t have many climbing trees. And if you did start to climb, some strange person walking past with a small crowd of friends might call you down and invite themselves over for lunch after saving your soul.
McDonalds Magic
I’m a bit of a snob. I like my coffee houses how I like my men: I stick with just the one.
