on the edge of ordinary

A couple of weeks ago I listened to a sermon about faithfulness, one of the fruit of the Holy Spirit—characteristics we should see growing i...

Last week was huge—such a contrast to a usual work at my desk at home. I'm glad for all the people I interacted with, though, so thankfu...

This week has been full of many words, most of them written. I've done a lot of editing, at times I've really struggled with the edi...

Well, the last two blog posts have been really easy to write: from inside the writing retreat and then last week's wonderful news about ...

I often think of the scenes of another book I read as a child,  Heidi,  when I think of  ancient shepherds. In that  book the animals are go...

I took time out of the house yesterday, mostly with the intention of making more progress in reading the book  Awe and intentionally followi...

Expectations play a big part in how we experience life. One example is weather. We had a dinner party on Saturday night with three American ...

Our daily prayers are full of "please God, we need certain things to be in place so that we can do what we perceive you want to us to d...

A close friend recently sent me a link to a very helpful Facebook post. It’s written by Martyn Iles, an Australia Christian who has had an u...

Image by  Gordon Johnson  from  Pixabay It is my habit at the start of January to look ahead to the next 12 months in my first blog post of ...