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Wow, I’m so encouraged – a blogger who I’ve found to be a huge blessing to me, April who writes Letters from Lillies, has chosen to include me in the Liebster Awards! It’s such a lovely gesture, so nice to be affirmed by someone whose blog I enjoy so much! I’ve told April that I [...]
The subject of forgiveness keeps coming up for me lately. I wrote here about one important lesson I’ve been learning (and practising) recently – that as a Christian I’m commanded to forgive simply because God has forgiven me, not because what the other person has done is understandable or excusable or not so bad really. [...]
So I’m standing and chatting with some people after the service this evening and suddenly this guy (someone I know) greets me with a very happy shout: Meirav! I look at him expectantly, wondering what he’s going to say, and then he says: Happy Easter!!! and I say: oh….. um…. thank you. Because I haven’t [...]
Dear Atheists, Sorry we Christians behave like jerks sometimes. So do you, obviously, but that’s not the issue I want to address here. You haven’t committed to following Jesus and living his way, so when you behave like jerks, you are not letting him down. We are the people who have committed to living his way and [...]
I love modern technology. I love the way it enables me to communicate with my family and friends back home in Israel without having to wait for letters to travel back and forth. I love the way it has enabled me to get to know people from other countries and to build cross-cultural friendships. I [...]
I woke up with thoughts about someone who upset me yesterday. My head was full of stuff like: maybe she did it because….. she probably didn’t realise that….. etc etc – trying to understand the reasons behind her behaviour, trying to find reasons to excuse her. Knowing that as a Christian I should forgive her, [...]
Forgetting that you’re reading a translation – my latest Church Laundry rant.
Sometimes my life feels like I’m walking a tightrope So many different things to try and do So many challenges – they won’t look big to most people, but to me they’re huge I look at my day, at what I need to get done and take a deep breath before starting to walk along [...]
I didn’t see you when you walked past I only saw your clothes, which signify something to me your outward appearance, which is alien to me your body language your behaviour I didn’t see you. Perhaps you were wearing some kind of religious gear that is alien to me, or maybe some kind of uniform [...]
Travelling is not easy for book lovers – unless they have some kind of e-reader, which I haven’t, there are always these tough choices: which books shall I take with me? how many? When I go by car, I tend to throw a humungous number of different books in the boot, because, well, how on [...]
