Reflections and Musings

  • Happy New Year – Living in the Moment

    Happy New Year – Living in the Moment

    Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. (ESV) Sometimes when we reflect on the year that was, and look to the year that is is fast approaching, we can become anxious about what the year will hold.… Read more

  • What we mean to God – this Christmas and always

    What we mean to God – this Christmas and always

    This was a sermon I wrote for our Church’s Christmas service in 2017. We had recently lost our dearly loved pastor to cancer, and our church needed a whole lot of love and togetherness. This is the message the Holy Spirit put on my heart that my church family needed to hear.  I find myself in a similar place Christmas 2018, and so this message is for us last year, this year, and every year to come. What is our… Read more

  • Re-defining Yourself

    Re-defining Yourself

    You are allowed to re-define yourself…you are in charge of your story.  This is your narrative, you are the author (commissioned by God Himself!).  You do not have to be defined by what you do, what others say of you, your work, your appearance, your past, expectations or failure…you are defined by your Loving Creator… Read more

  • Ruth and her Kinsman Redeemer

    Ruth and her Kinsman Redeemer

    Some thoughts from reading the book of Ruth…a beautiful story of faithfulness and love.   Setting:- the book of Ruth is a story set in times when Israel had once again forgotten God’s leading.  Once again they put their trust in themselves and forgot the God who brought them out of Egypt.  A lot of… Read more

  • Praying Psalm 139

    Praying Psalm 139

    This is a paraphrase of one of my favourite Psalms – 139.  If you need to know your worth, and how much God thinks of you, then this is the Psalm He wants you to hear. Lord you know everything about me, not just that, but you seek to know me inside and out.  You… Read more

  • My Place

    My Place

    Last week we had a family road trip down the deep South of the South Island of New Zealand.  The quickest way to unwind and de-stress, is to totally disengage from busy life, and we found that to be very true on this trip!  On our last day, we spent the morning walking into the… Read more