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Grasshoppers and Roundabouts

Grasshoppers and Roundabouts

I’m a firm believer that God uses the circumstances of our everyday lives to communicate with us. Sometimes we just need to be listening- paying attention to recurring patterns, themes, metaphors and motifs. I had coffee a while back with a particularly sparkly young...

Listen To Your Life

Listen To Your Life

A few years ago I put all my teaching resources on the verge for council collection. It might have been a bit of a waste, but I likened it to the prophet Elisha, who when called to be a prophet of God, killed his oxen and burned his plough lest he is tempted to go back to #farmlyfe.

I sensed a call to pastoral ministry and so I burned the plough…

There Goes God- A Cherry Family Update

There Goes God- A Cherry Family Update

“Hey, don't look now, But there goes GodIn his sexy pants and his sausage dog…”  -Crowded House “Community is community” – John Masters The past week has been a little hectic for the Cherry family. Leigh and I decided that we would publicly share the health...

Yo Turkey

Yo Turkey

I write the following with some anxiety. Our daughter is really unwell. I think if she had a physical illness, I wouldn't hesitate to talk about it. I want to be part of breaking the stigma associated with other kinds of illnesses and I want to honour her request that...

Beautiful You

Dear child of mine, I know you’ve started reading my blog and so I’m here to leave you an open letter. (An open letter is a letter specifically addressed to one person, with the awareness that other people will read it. People usually write them to politicians and the...