I was 25 years old, a full-time primary school teacher and 20 weeks pregnant with our little ‘surprise’ package. It just happened to be our 2nd wedding anniversary when the morphology ultrasound was booked. Lying on that ultrasound table I felt sick. I was no longer ill from morning sickness, just sick from the quiet joy, which was bouncing from wall to wall. The young man ....
You don’t normally envisage an exciting new season in God beginning with a snotty session of foetal rocking on the couch, but there I was. What catastrophe had put me there? A list of expectations, both real and imagined, that scrolled through my head as we prepared to take on senior pastorship of Calvary Christian Church in Townsville. Not, as some may suspect, the lac....
I remember the first time I heard the words that will stay with me forever. I remember the smile on the woman’s face as she looked at me with envy and I remember the pride that exuded from me that day thinking I had just won a gold medal. No those words weren’t you are amazing. No they weren’t you are so smart or kind. They weren’t even you are beautiful. Those words,....
I arrived in Australia as an asylum seeker from East Timor. I was not quite two years old. Even though we were now safe in Australia the shadow of what my family had experienced in the conflict in East Timor, hung over our home. From the moment we arrived my parents pretty much laid down their lives to provide a life for my brother and I, of which I am forever grateful. I remem....
