A community for broken hearts?

I’m not great at fixing things. I don’t always have the patience to do a good job. This week a cycle of Grief Share finished at the church – lives have be touched, people have been comforted in the grief, but Oh how I wish I could tap them on the head on the way [...]

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Weakness brings healing.

  I’m not perfect – when I was in school my hair refused to be tamed or contained and my shirt tail never would stay tucked in. Now I’m older I have given into the windswept look and I have decided that life is too short to straighten hair. Being perfect can be tiring! Actually, [...]

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Transforming Church in Rural America – Shannon O’Dell

Having read Shannon O’Dell’s ‘Transforming Church in Rural America’ I have decided that the title is a bit limiting (I recieved a complimentary copy for review from Booksneeze.com). I’m working in a suburban church in South Africa, so we are neither rural nor American, yet O’Dell’s book has much that speaks to our situation. This is [...]

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You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family!

Today my thoughts have been sent in two directions. I wanted to take part in Bridget Chumley’s one word devotional carnival on ‘Condemnation’ but at the same time Rachel Olsen is having here carnival on ‘sisters in Christ’ so today I’m combining both! Friendship is great but can be fickle. If I remember back to [...]

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