Chapter 11 Wrestle 'The Lord will fight for you...’ Exodus 14:14 Read Genesis 28:11-22 and Genesis 32:22-28 The footprints of history are deep, trailing lines in the dusty earth, script lines, lines to live repeatedly-without-thinking by, lines running back through time, lines first spoken in a garden long ago. Lie, manipulate, defraud and steal... Continue Reading →
Personal
..God sees and hears the pain we live in, in this unravelling world, and He weaves His grace around us to restore us to ourselves. This God sees. This God hears. And this God names us who we truly are long after we have forgotten...
Broken Light
Chapter 8 Broken Light 'Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings... ...For... Continue Reading →
Falling…
Chapter Five Falling... ‘The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.’ Isaiah 9:2 Read Genesis chapter 3: 1-24 How do I look this child in the face and tell her everything is going to be okay when the reality... Continue Reading →
Loved.
Chapter Two Loved. 'Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.' 1 John 4:8 ‘We love because he first loved us’ 1 John 4:19 'love one another as I have loved you' John 13:34 Read: Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:18-24 Some sickness is easy to diagnose, like blotches on skin or a... Continue Reading →
Epilogue: The Road Home
Epilogue The Road Home 'Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.' Psalm 119:18 Read Luke 24:13-35 There are roads sometimes that go nowhere, nowhere but away, nowhere but far from all we want to leave behind us, far from all we fear and cannot face. Wandering roads, retreating roads, roads... Continue Reading →