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I don’t know where the next 23 years will take us but I do know who I will be sharing the adventure with… the bravest person I know.
As we come up to Mothers day in just over a week, I’m going to take the opportunity over the next little while, to reflect on the ways that three women in particular have shaped my life I find myself at another point of transition. Transition isn’t easy. I wasn’t expecting my life to be so full of change when I left home as a 17 year old. When I was 21 I met someone who would become my partner on this crazy journey, and she has been the person, by far, who has had the biggest influence on my life. We started our journey together with long talks about…
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Ordination, while indeed symbolic, truly does matter, at least to me.
It has been an unusually long time since I wrote a Faith Reflection. This has largely been because I have been deeply engaged with what I have been doing over the last few weeks, but also because it has taken a bit of processing to come to terms with it. You see, in addition to running our first one week Foundations course at the church and leading the church to run three Open Crowd festivals simultaneously across the city, and engaging with an annual planning retreat, I got ordained. Since I started as a Pastor three years ago, I knew ordination was going to be something that needed to happen.…