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Growing through parenthood

Growing through parenthood

Our first year of parenthood has been exciting, challenging and full of wonderful memories. We have learnt to be adaptable, flexible and to embrace change and new skills. The journey continues, and I am encouraged that God knows what lies ahead and will lead us every step of the way..

  • Keep Your Pants On

    Cue smoke machine. Worship with me. Raise your hands, sway to the music as the Spirit leads you in contemporary dance. Shout a Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Pants off.

  • Great is Your faithfulness

    If there was one word I would use to describe this year so far, it would be faithfulness.

  • Turn Off the Internet Service…Go Back to Church

    All our lives have changed so much over the past few months, so it is no surprise that how we do church has changed as well. Overnight, we began tuning into our church from the comfort of our home.

  • Covid church: The good, the bad, the ugly

    In the classic Spaghetti Western movies of the 1960s, such as “The good, the bad and the ugly” the baddie always wore a mask. These days with Covid-19 we ALL wear masks, even for Church. The new normal for services during Covid lockdown is online. So, let’s take stock of online church with some pro’s and con’s.

  • Perfectionism verses Excellence

    As someone who has fallen prey to the trap of perfectionism in the past, I had always found it a little confusing when reading about excellence as I used to think they were the same thing. But on my journey, I have discovered they are very different.

  • Issues with Covid 19

    There are a myriad of opinions and expressions of interest in relation to the Covid 19 pandemic that now might a time to discuss some of these.

  • Use it or lose it

    In high school, our physical education teacher would tell us “use it or lose it”. Of course, he meant use your muscles or lose your muscles. I’ll admit, I was pretty motivated by this approach to scare us into pushing ourselves harder at sport, especially since whatever muscle I did have, I was not prepared to lose it for not running an extra ten metres.

  • When Virus Mutations Become Life Mutations

    Even the most nomadic of wanderers have been caught off-kilter by the jumbled rhythm of this all-consuming crisis. Previously, our transience was on our terms; now, it is government mandated. The fickle hand of fate comes dressed in a starched blue uniform, short marching us to a future unknown.

  • This has been around for many years

    Mega-data continues to be on the media as the Government has applauded its new legislation to the Senate along with calls of caution by the media having their sources revealed through this IT mechanism.

  • At the pit: a prayer

    O Lord, You have made me new, yet how is my heart still as black as coal?

  • Bloom Again

    I wander by the plum tree in our garden and catch its perfume on a warm breeze. Last week its twigs were stark and empty, but today they’re laden with pastel pinks. Bees poke their heads into blossoms, while honeyeaters flit from branch to branch, shaking petals to the ground with their whipping wings.