Cast adrift like a little wooden boat on a grey, misty sea. That’s the image that came to her as she lay in bed, unable to sleep. Have you cast us off Lord? No sense of His presence or His voice, just grey aloneness. I’ll still trust you, I’ll still believe you, even if I can’t feel you. She’d been…
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Maybe she’ll see a dolphin. Dolphins have always been thing for her, an expression of God’s love, His presence. ‘We’ve been on some adventures, haven’t we Lord?’ she says as she looks out from the headland over the ocean to the horizon. Over that horizon were islands she had visited. New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tokelau, New Caledonia, Papua…
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It was a sad day. Even though the sky was blue, she just felt low, and sad and teary. There was no obvious reason to be sad, she just was. She chatted with her cousin, recently returned from 10 years overseas, just like her. ‘I just miss Indonesia so much! I’ve had a terrible headache all week and I’m very…
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So little. His hand splays over his mother’s chest, tiny perfect fingers reaching out in total dependence and love. He’s 12 weeks early, only 28 weeks, born to his 20-year-old mother, just a little slip of a thing herself. Little, but strong. They name him Levi Henk. Henk too was born early, as bombs dropped and brought on labour. His…
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She wrapped herself around the hot cup of tea and checked the outside temperature on her phone. It was -1 outside. She huddled deeper into her cosy bed and put off throwing off the covers for a moment more. It would be so much easier to stay tucked in warm and tight, but outside beckoned and her legs needed to…
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