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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: March 2012

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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Thursday, 15 March 2012. Seeing ourselves as we really are. Although the title and frequent use of the term 'self-esteem' is somewhat misleading, for I think there is a difference between low self-esteem and godly humility, here's a snippet from an article by TGC which I think highlights what is often wrong with my own view of self and key Bible figures. From TGC: The Beauty of Low Self-Esteem. Sunday, 11 March 2012.

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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: My Quinta Extravaganza

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As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Thoughts from an ordinary woman. UNCOVER: see for yourself. Wednesday, 19 September 2012. 2012/13 Relay Workers- can you spot the doctoring? After nearly 2 weeks of conferences, amazing fellowship with Christian brothers and sisters, profoundly convicting teaching on Colossians, 2 Timothy and Luke, I returned on Sunday 9th to what is now my home for the next 10 months, loaded with a rucksack of smelly washing and an expectant heart. And really, what I keep on finding is that th...