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Turtle Justice

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 08/07/202108/07/2021 0 comments

Last week my family and I went to the zoo. I don’t normally love zoos but I love Werribee Open Range Zoo because the animals have a bit more room to roam. My favourite animals are usually the African animals – meerkats, cheetahs, hippos, zebras, and giraffes. I love the safari that takes you through the park and gets you up close to some of the animals as they go about doing their own thing. Mostly the animals are just standing or lying around. For this reason, my husband is not a big fan of zoos. He finds it boring because the animals are not doing anything.

This trip to the zoo proved us both wrong.

by: Bronwyn

Staying in the Lane

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 16/03/202116/03/2021 0 comments

When I was learning to drive, one of my first problems was learning to stay in the lane. First it would be, ‘you’re too close to the gutter!’ Then, ‘you’re too close to the centre!’

The instructing person (usually one of my parents) would get progressively more agitated that I wasn’t heeding their warnings. I would be checking each side, thoroughly confused as to what I was doing wrong and how to get it right.

My first professional instructor was even less helpful. She said, ‘Bronwyn, you look but you don’t see. You listen but you don’t hear.’ Finally, one day I yelled at her: ‘I don’t know what I am meant to be seeing or hearing! Stop telling me that and just tell me something helpful!’

After that I changed driving instructors.

7 ways to creatively uplift your prayer life

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 25/02/202026/02/2020 0 comments

Prayer and devotional life doesn’t have to be on your knees next to your bed at given times in the day. This is definitely an important habit to have but to limit prayer life to these confines could be limiting the depths to which God can reach you and change your life.

Recently I attended a women’s conference for prayer. We practiced several different and creative methods for meditating on God’s word and speaking to Him. It was illuminating, restful and invigorating to commune with God in these different avenues. I want to share some things I have picked up along my Christian sojourn.

by: Bronwyn

A Summer of Flames

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 22/01/202012/02/2020 0 comments

This month has seen a lot of horrors. Bushfires ravaging the land, towns, homes, livelihoods and too many lives. Smoke descending like gloom over cities in a way we have never experienced before. The ripple effects to unaffected parts on the other side of the country causing financial difficulties. The feeling that the fires will never stop. Storms and floods causing destruction but not relieving the devastating drought of the past few years. While this goes on I have had some friends face terrible medical news. Broken health. Hospital admissions.

What a broken world we live in! How we went from the most live-able city in the world to worst air quality in the world. It shows how fleeting things are. It is easy to fool ourselves into thinking that we make our own destiny. But little do we realise how much grace holds up our lives.

by: Bronwyn

A Breath of Fresh Air: Let the Spirit In

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 04/12/201904/12/2019 0 comments

At the moment I have a cold. It’s the third virus I have had this season so I am no stranger to a blocked nose and all that goes along with it. Sleeping is difficult when you can’t breathe. Added to that I am pregnant and my large belly is making breathing difficult. (And unable to take decongestant!)

“Blessed are those who can breathe freely…” are words I would not usually think to say. However when something so vital, so ingrained, so normally ubiquitous and under-recognised suddenly disappears we are rendered helpless.

There is another sort of ‘breath’ that is so vital, ingrained, ubiquitous and under-recognised. The Spirit.

by: Bronwyn

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 23/10/201923/10/2019 0 comments

To Daniel and his 3 friends, it would seem that they were born at the wrong time in history. The mistakes made by their predecessors were now reaping its rewards on Daniel’s generation. King Jehoiakim had been forewarned and his choice to ignore those warnings led to Daniel and his friends being forcibly removed from home, family and land.

by: Bronwyn

A Father’s Love

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 06/08/201906/08/2019 0 comments

We have a little boy who is 4 years old. He has taught me many things in his short life time. But one thing parenthood has shown me is the wonder of a father’s love and how it is a reflection of God’s love for us.

by: Bronwyn

Rest

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 18/06/201918/06/2019 0 comments

It’s that time of year again. The weather starts to turn cold. The flu vaccination gets advertised. The winter lurgy begins to rear its ugly head. One by one your friends and colleagues succumb to its persistent and pervading powers.

by: Bronwyn

The Power of Pain

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 14/05/201914/05/2019 0 comments

Pain.

Conjures up many ideas – mostly negative ones. You may think of your back, an old injury that plays up. You may think of emotional pain. It may be something that never seems to go away.

by: Bronwyn

KonMari for the soul

in Thoughts by Bronwyn 19/02/201907/03/2019 0 comments

Marie Kondo the clean-up queen from Japan has been taking the world and making it a tidier, happier place one Kon-Mari step at a time. If you are not familiar with this phenomenon, a quick google search will reveal that she has made a fortune on helping people tidy up their homes.

When her show came to Netflix I couldn’t resist jumping on the organising bandwagon. I watched as she thanked the home in a reverent prayer-like fashion. Then each person was asked to pull all their clothes out and make a big pile. Once they had pulled every single item out then they would go through each one, decide which one ‘sparked joy’ and then discarded or kept the item. If the item was discarded, it was also thanked for its service. This process was repeated for each category.

I was intrigued. Imagine if we took the time to examine our hearts like this!

by: Bronwyn