I’ve suffered a lot of traumas in my life and the journey to healing has been a long one. A lot of how we walk through life is affected by our lived experience. And when, like me, your lived experience was to be chastised if you showed any emotion, shamed for having...
Will you believe? God is patient with us. He respects our boundaries. He doesn’t force you beyond your will. Have you ever given a gift to someone, for them to not seem fussed at all about it. You’ve put all that planning and preparation into choosing the perfect gift...
Oh my, Oh my, Oh my. How amazingly awesome and great is our God. This weekend has been one thing after another of things happening that puts on display how God cares for us, and even in those moments where we are trusting but we aren’t necessarily prayer focussed. It...
I was watching the film Encanto this week with my 8 year old daughter. If you’ve never seen it maybe scroll on past this blog as it may not make a lot of sense but I will do my best to explain. We were all cosied up with the duvet on the couch as my daughter has been...
Philippians 4 We’ve learnt a lot in this journey through Philippians that is continued on into Chapter 4 from previous chapters. What I will focus on in this final chapter is what Paul teaches about true contentment. If I was to list all the things that had happened...
Philippians 3 Key Themes in this chapter are: Rejoicing in the Lord, Warning against False Teachers and The Goal of Knowing Christ. Paul begins by encouraging the believers to rejoice in the Lord. When we rejoice in the Lord always we experience a profound joy that is...
Philippi is the first city in Macedonia that Paul visited which you can read about in Acts Chapter 16. The people of Philippi hold a special place in Paul’s heart. They are the only people that continued to support Paul after he left them. This letter was not a...
No-one talks about how utterly exhausting it is to work through trauma healing. How memories and flashbacks hijack your nervous system to a point you are unable to move. Even though mental health is talked about, I feel it still misses the mark. I’ve seen how the...
In Matthew 27 reading from verse 11 we find ourselves at the trial of Jesus before Pilate. For this part of the devotional I want to hone in on the release of a prisoner. It was customary during the Passover celebration to release one prisoner to the crowd and so...
The details of The Last Supper can be found in Matthew 26:17-30, Mark 14:12-26 and Luke 22:7-30. In The Last Supper Jesus took two symbols associated with Passover and issued them with fresh meaning as a way for us to remember his sacrifice. The bread and wine are the...