God is good

A Good Thing

Among the many good things that may happen in your life, I’m grieved to tell you that the bad will be overwhelmingly likely to outweigh the good. On a daily basis, atrocities occur around the world, and hearing about such things only tears down the illusion of the “good world” you want to believe exists.Continue reading “A Good Thing”

13 Days

For thirteen days, I was away. And for thirteen days, I have not written anything new until now. It is the longest I have been away from my digital oasis, this little nook of mine filled with descriptive words and images of many colours. Coincidentally, this has also been the longest hiatus I’ve had thisContinue reading “13 Days”

The Third Woman

There aren’t many things that take me by surprise. Let’s call it a defence mechanism. My brain works too well at predicting patterns and identifying threats… so much so that surprises aren’t really surprises anymore. But because of the ways I’ve been hurt, that uncertainty feels like a very dangerous thing. In fact, I declinedContinue reading “The Third Woman”

A Letter From the Desert

Mr brothers and sisters in Christ, Where do you go when you’re not feeling like yourself? Like you’re operating on your bad habits because the regular servers in your head aren’t working, or even past that, when everything in you ceases to work. Do you run back to the Father with all your unfavourable emotionsContinue reading “A Letter From the Desert”

Never Alone

I have seen stars spread across the sky And billions of sand grains blanketing beaches Off the east coast of my home. There have been geese with scary teeth, And leaves that turn red at the touch of autumn, Yet, we’re so quick to forget the one who made it. In grand miracles and nature’sContinue reading “Never Alone”

Today I said hello

Today I said hello to people I haven’t seen in a long time. For the past two years, I have committed nine days at the start of the year to visit a little place a bit north of home – a suburb in the Hunter Valley region, called Cessnock. And in those nine days, IContinue reading “Today I said hello”