And the bottom fell out…
Sometimes massive stuff happens to us and knocks us right off our feet. Sometimes there is nothing we can do about it. Some things are just too big
Author Archives: Oli
Working for no pay
I don’t know about you but I want to contribute to life – I want a chance to give something of myself: to God, to my ‘neighbour’, to creation.
Knit together
This is not just about God knowing what was going on and having a plan – though this is incredible in itself. The psalmist proclaims that YOU knit me together. God, THE LORD, I AM, Alpha and Omega, King of Kings… knitting me?
“If you have 2 tunics…”
One of the patients we visited was a small baby who was waiting for a liver transplant. The poor little lad was full of tubes, and a strange shade of yellow. As we walked into the room his parents jokingly asked what blood type I was – to see if I would share a piece of my liver! And this set me thinking… why not?
absolutely FURIOUS
I was broken, and I was furious. How could this happen? How could he do that? How could society allow that? How could God allow that?
Poetry corner!
I make no claim to literary genius, I am just beginning to peel back the oppression of ‘adulthood’ to let my creativity loose!
Waves of Grace
As I swim my life matches the rise and fall of the waves…
‘God speed’
We spend (/waste) so much of our lives thinking and working or being anxious or proud based on the past or the future – both of which are often irrelevant to life, and cripple our ability to live in this moment. ‘God speed’ is not necessarily progress at a spectacular rate – it is acceptance of existence in the moment. Living…right now.
Ebs and Flows... 