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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Prayer Pressure
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Saturday, 29 September 2012. I’m tempted to think that the act of praying is one thing, but on top of that there’s a pressure. A pressure to really mean. My prayers. And so I leave prayer meetings with furrowed brows and sage nods and an intangible fear that I wasn’t ‘engaged’ enough. Perhaps – Oh dear – I was just ’going through the motions.’. Well surely I need to match that intensity – emotionally speaking! Glen Scr...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: October 2014
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Wednesday, 8 October 2014. As greens turn to golds and blazing reds I'm facing a new start in the city. But times are a changin' and an autumn breeze is carrying me off to Munich. The rolling hills of the low country will soon be ironed out and a quiet, neighbourly village life will turn into a spaghetti of constant sound and anonymous bodies. So stay tuned. You never know what might sneak its way onto this blog. Aweso...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: June 2013
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Sunday, 16 June 2013. Needlework and the Tailor. It's the domestic hazard of 'growing up Christian'. I can tick all the boxes and score high marks on a Bible comprehension exercise, but unless I am in love with the One who is Wisdom then it becomes a knowedge for the conceited. Then you've got LG imploring you with his recurring 'don't you see? And they just won't leave me alone. Because what I really need. Needlework ...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: I'm an alien
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Saturday, 22 November 2014. Ice skating. An unlikely occasion to feel like the lime-green alien again who's just landed from Mars. We've all had a go at some point. You know what I'm talking about, right? Just one of the many hilarious pseudo-anglicisms.). Now let me explain what a German ice rink is all about. I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien.". I mean, I haven't done this for a few years, but I'm sure I'll get the han...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: August 2012
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Saturday, 25 August 2012. Warning: graduate in transition. Time lurches on and I'm just beginning to feel the effects of transition. No longer a student, I enter the graduate realm of unemployment and sarcastically-framed comments on the use of my degree. Well, almost. For those who know nothing about the Relay discipleship and training scheme, I suggest you look here. Amazingly though, my anxiety levels are low. T...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Autumn clean
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Wednesday, 8 October 2014. As greens turn to golds and blazing reds I'm facing a new start in the city. But times are a changin' and an autumn breeze is carrying me off to Munich. The rolling hills of the low country will soon be ironed out and a quiet, neighbourly village life will turn into a spaghetti of constant sound and anonymous bodies. So stay tuned. You never know what might sneak its way onto this blog. Aweso...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: From fractures to fashioning
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Sunday, 9 February 2014. From fractures to fashioning. Or, 'have I ceased to exist? A good friend asked me whether I felt I was fracturing myself in German. Whether, it was disingenuous to speak words in a foreign tongue whose meaning was highly similar, yet still different to your own. Whether I felt less like 'me', since she felt less like 'her'. Jein (Yes and no). At first, yes, it is like fracturing. Or it feels.
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: September 2012
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Saturday, 29 September 2012. I’m tempted to think that the act of praying is one thing, but on top of that there’s a pressure. A pressure to really mean. My prayers. And so I leave prayer meetings with furrowed brows and sage nods and an intangible fear that I wasn’t ‘engaged’ enough. Perhaps – Oh dear – I was just ’going through the motions.’. Well surely I need to match that intensity – emotionally speaking! Glen Scr...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: December 2011
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Monday, 19 December 2011. The Dawn of Spring. Long, dark, winter months always remind me of C. S. Lewis' winter which covered Narnia, the snows, frost, ice and most of all, the absence of Christmas, being the curse of the wicked white witch. Christmas reminds us that the coming of Jesus is the dawn of Spring. Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Son of Righteousness! Light and life to all He brings. All would...
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire: The Hidden Life
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Friday, 21 September 2012. Quite simply put, the temptation was to lie. Lies trip quite easily from our tongues almost like steam from the spout of an ever-boiling kettle. The problem is not the hot water vapour as much as the turbulence inside the pot. The boiling liquid is what we need to cool and contain. Only a change of master results in a change of heart. 23 September 2012 at 20:50. Les Davey de France.