Deep Wells

Last night I tossed & turned.  I put it down to the bombardment of news; daily changes & upheaval in our way of life; social media updates; differing opinions on how to contain an outbreak this world has never seen before... I have been keeping my peace, but I don't think it's healthy to be faced with such an onslaught of information at such a constant rate - with fresh news of heartbreak guaranteed each time you click 'power on' or refresh.   A few years ago I did a communion message on 'white noise'.   This is a combination of a heap of sounds & frequencies combined together.  It often just becomes a whirr of noise & it's hard to differentiate between all the sounds.    If your neighbours are throwing a party & you want to drown it out you'll turn on some music of your own, or another time you might put on some peaceful rainforest music to help put yourself to sleep.   That's the kind of white noise I like! :) Thi...

“Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.   Let all that you do be done with love.”  1 Cor 16:13-14 If there was ever a time to shine God’s love to the world, it is right now. People are genuinely frightened about the future.  For many, the ground they are standing on is like shifting, perilous sand.  And without an assured hope for the future it is difficult to process the onslaught of media announcements combined with general uncertainty for the future. Today I gave trays of much needed food to a family who have recently both lost their incomes.  The drought, the fires then the floods in our region had already destroyed their business - and now they have just lost their work car.  They have no clue how they are going to afford a basic standard of living for the next six months.  Centrelink was their point of call this morning but they couldn’t even get in - so the...