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Tanya Riches
Dec 20, 2019
Wait: Hope is Growing
I’ve never been great at waiting. I’ll be honest, I’m terrible at it. Patience is a virtue, they say. But I look at my little seven-month...
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Kath Henry
May 11, 2019
A Trinity of Faith, Hope and Love
Driving home yesterday I found myself caught in the heat of peak hour traffic. I say heat, because although the late summer sun was...
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Fiona Isaacs & Isobel Knight
Jan 11, 2019
Can You Imagine That? Returning to Mary Poppins.
I need Mary Poppins in my life. Not because she has the magical ability to clean her house by clicking her fingers. Not even because she...
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Jenni Stoddart
Dec 23, 2018
Reflecting on Retro, name tags, nursing home ignominy and the hope of the end of ends
Earlier this year I attended a weekend camp where the students I teach had been wearing retro. Their retro is fashion of my youth. They...
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Elise Heerde
Mar 26, 2018
Rebuilding the Ruins
Nehemiah Chapter 4 is a beautiful story of God rebuilding ruins. All the people of God had been gathered and they began to rebuild the...
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Elise Heerde
Jan 21, 2018
Hope from Hannah
1 Samuel 1 tells what seems like a sad story to begin with. Hannah who is greatly loved by her husband is heartbroken, disappointed and...
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Elise Heerde
Dec 8, 2017
When Hope Hurts
As 2017 draws to a close I wonder if you find yourself with a desire that you so dearly hoped would have come to pass this year. Yet, as...
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Elise Heerde
Dec 7, 2017
The Wishing Well
When you were little did you ever throw coins into a wishing well? As a little girl, I remember my Mum giving me coins to throw in any...
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Mary Elizabeth Fisher
Dec 3, 2017
Advent's first Sunday announces HOPE
Israel in the decades of Roman oppression had known 7 centuries of oppression - the horrific Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians,...
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Erica Hamence
Oct 18, 2017
How to process and pray through your grief and anger
In a pattern that is right on the cusp of comical and depressing, yet again I had thought I was ok. I had been reading all of the stuff...
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