on the edge of ordinary

I "gave my testimony" at church a couple of weeks ago. That phrase is generally associated with telling how you came to Christ. Bu...

Raspberry lamington that one of the library assistants gave me for helping them this week. The school has an Aussie chef in their cafeteria ...

I read a book a couple of months ago called Looking for God  by Nancy Ortberg. I rediscovered it when I was trawling through old blog posts ...

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 ...

We're getting close to being able to tell you the "end of the story", the end that we've been working towards and praying ...

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...

I've had lots of space for thinking recently. Sometimes it feels like too much space. We enjoyed the simple pleasure of catching up with...

Early in the year , I wrote about focusing my thoughts on Psalm 103, particularly as we work our way through this crazy year. But almost imm...

A cross-cultural friend I know in Japan asked me this week: "Do you feel fully settled back in at home?" The last "nature...

I've had time to think about a lot of things. Here are some of them: Providing food for an itinerant family (on a budget) As I explained...

The forest outside the chapel where we met to contemplate these three questions. We could  only see glimpses through the narrow windows of t...

A disclaimer here to start: my life isn't that hard at the moment, and it has never really been majorly hard! (Not in the ballpark of an...