2017 wonder

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Ever since I was a girl, I have always loved heading off on holidays. It often meant getting up early, climbing into the car with blankets and pillows (setting up the mobile bed well before mobile homes), and then driving into the morning light. I had three siblings and sometimes […]

The Wonder Years

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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. Calvin Coolidge This time last year I was sitting on the edge of wonder. But it wasn’t good wonder. […]

wonder-dread or wonder-hope

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“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing others’ loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.” W.C Jones Christmas can be lonely especially for those with unmet expectations, so how do we find joy in unlikely […]

Finding Joy In Unlikely Places

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There is a day of lament happening in Perth. They are gathering people of faith to respond to the findings of the royal commission into child abuse in institutional settings, to show that we are listening and that we are committed to justice. They are an interdenominational group of lay people […]

Day of Lament

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