Anchored To Hope

What a horrific week. Australia was left heart broken and the footy world gutted as we lost a key leader of the game to a disease of the mind- suicide. The christian world has been rocked by another young pastor with a young family , taking his life only days ago. As someone advocating for the awareness and treatment of mental illness for over 10 years via this blog-  We need to talk.  I’ve been asked my thoughts/ advice / experience on this latest topic of Pastors and Suicide and to be perfectly honest- it’s tough. It’s tough because there is no one size fits all. There is no “depression” and “anxiety” that fit neatly into a little box with a bow on top. It’s messy.  We’re messy. We all are. Do I believe God is still God and God is still good and brilliant and beautiful and a healer and a comforter? - Yes I do.  But I also believe we as a society are living beyond our means. We are over stimulated and under responsive, we’re addicted, w...

Welcome to 2019 my friends! I always get this niggle right before a blog makes its complicated and tumultuous journey from my brain to the page. A brewing if you will.  It’s this amalgamation of what is being taught to my mind and what I’m experiencing in my heart. Mixed with ramblings from my wild and at some times unkept mind.  Every day is a choice.  New Years is interesting isn’t it?  We all of a sudden have a clean out.  We de clutter our homes and our minds.  We anticipate change.  A fresh start.  Our “best year yet”.  It’s like we sit and wait and hope with clenched hands over hearts that “This will be the year” etc. It’s noble at best, but empty if not met with the outworking that such a notion requires. So what does the outworking look like?  Because without a change in behaviour, 2019 will slowly but surely be a continued pattern of 2018. Life is a continuous set of choices.  So in ...