by Deryn | Feb 1, 2022 | LANDSCAPES OF LIFE, LEARNING JOURNEYS, Real Life, SOCIAL JUSTICE
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com A sermon given by an LGBTQ woman talking about people living on the margins of a society deeply touched me at the end of last year. She was describing how God created margins right at the beginning. He created Day and Night. It was not a... 
by Deryn | Jan 19, 2022 | Divorce, Grief, LEARNING JOURNEYS, Real Life, SOCIAL JUSTICE, SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL WOUNDING, TRANSFORMATION, Transitions, TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, Widowhood
Photo by Jackson David on Pexels.com WOMEN HE REDEEMED Jesus must have known and understood the abuse, lack of value and respect as well as the generational trauma that women had to endure, that was the result of the old system when he sought out the women whose... 
by Deryn | Jan 6, 2022 | Divorce, Grief, LANDSCAPES OF LIFE, LEARNING JOURNEYS, Real Life, SOCIAL JUSTICE, SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL WOUNDING, TRANSFORMATION, TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, Widowhood
Photo by RODNAE Productions on Pexels.com The sermon series run in our church during Advent highlighted the women in Jesus’ genealogy. This is probably the first time I have heard these women being honored as part of Jesus genealogy. As I sat and listened to... 
by Deryn | Oct 1, 2021 | LANDSCAPES OF LIFE, Real Life, Retirement, Seasons of Life, SOCIAL JUSTICE, Travel, TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
Photo by MART PRODUCTION on Pexels.com INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR OLDER PEOPLE Elderly man with iPad photo DvdTang It is International Older People’s Day, and I wanted to highlight a few of the difficulties that older people and their families must contend with. This... 
by Deryn | Aug 13, 2021 | LANDSCAPES OF LIFE, Seasons of Life, SOCIAL JUSTICE, Spiritual, SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL WOUNDING, TRANSFORMATION, Transitions, TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
St Paul’s, Bedford I have long pondered why there is so much division in religion and in Christianity in particular, when everyone reads the same Bible. A lot of it is what doctrines people believe about the Scriptures, whether they are divinely inspired or a... 
by Deryn | Jul 22, 2021 | LANDSCAPES OF LIFE, Seasons of Life, SOCIAL JUSTICE, Spiritual, SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL WOUNDING, TRANSFORMATION, Transitions, TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
Photo by Rene Asmussen on Pexels.com Four Steps to Turn your Past into Your Future We are on an ever-evolving pathway of growth, and understanding the world around us, and our purpose in it. Some have settled into a comfort zone of “I know what I know and am...