Tanya Riches
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...
Kath Henry
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...
Fiona Isaacs & Isobel Knight
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...
Jenni Stoddart
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...
Elise Heerde
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...
Elise Heerde
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...
Elise Heerde
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...
Elise Heerde
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...
Mary Elizabeth Fisher
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,...
Erica Hamence
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...
