Tag archive: grief
The Winter of Good Friday
Good Friday reminds me a lot of Winter. It’s the deep dark days that you endure before the season of new life. You would certainly describe Jesus’ death 2000 years ago as a time of Winter. His Heavenly Father lost a son His mother had lost a first born His siblings had lost a brother His friends had…
My family journey
I feel like my family life has been a bit of rollercoaster. After Cameron and I got married 15 years ago, we decided that as a part of our faith we really wanted our home to be an open, loving home for lots of people. And so after a couple of years we became foster…
The Phone Didn’t Ring
A friend of mine, Andrew, recently wrote this on his birthday: The phone didn’t ring this morning. It’s not really all that often that the landline rings but today, normally, it would ring and it would be Mum. She’d call after 7am, not wanting to call too early, but before 7:30am so she could be…
Blinded By Pain
My self talk heaps pity on my own head 2 Samuel 19:1-43 Reference: “Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, “Today you have humiliated all your men, who have just saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines.” 2 Samuel…
Missed Communication
He didn’t reply to my message straight away. 2 Samuel 10:1-19 Reference: “the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn’t David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?”” 2…