The Promise of the Manger

I was thrilled this month to write a Christmas devotional for YLCF: I was thinking this week about Mary and Jesus. Mary is one of my heroines. When God told her that His plan for her life was bigger than her plan, she said, “Yes“. Nine months later she had a baby boy. I wonder [...]

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In the Dust of His Feet

I make life complicated. Maybe you do too. I make life about this person or that relationship, this gift or that opportunity, this ministry or that responsibility. People say, “It’s not about you, it’s about Jesus.” And I say, “I know.” And, really, I do. But the call and the pressure of the other stuff [...]

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Today

Has anyone ever said to you, “Today is all you have!”? I always sort of smile and think, “Yeah, I know, but …” And then this morning I was having my quiet time and I realised that today IS all I have. The next six weeks of my life are planned out in my diary [...]

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{Oh Martha!}

I’ve often wondered what she thought and how she felt when Jesus said, You are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her … (Luke 10:41-42) I can, honestly, understand her feelings. She just wanted her [...]

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{He Sees Me}

Her name was Hagar. (You can read the first bit of her story in Genesis 16.) She was a slave. She was pregnant with her master’s child. It was her mistress’s idea that she conceive and nurture the life of tribe – the life that represented the next generation. And the next. And the next. [...]

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