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Dear Friends, Welcome. ​This space exists for one reason: ​love — ​the love of God poured out in Jesus Christ, ​the love we are called to extend ​to one another, ​and to the world. ​There are many voices clamouring for our attention. Here, you will find the rhythm of one heart seeking to follow the way of Love. My ministry does not happen behind heavy church doors or within rigid institutional walls. It happens in the quiet, ordinary spaces of life where we learn to walk together at an unhurried pace. This is a faith rooted not in tradition for its own sake, but in the living, active, self-giving love at the heart of the Gospel. ​Three truths have become my anchors: ​The Living Word Jesus Christ is God manifest in the flesh. Apart from Him, the true God cannot be fully known. In Jesus, we see the face of a God who is Love, and whose Gospel is the path of Peace. ​The Gift of Grace I believe salvation is found by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Grace is a t...
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The Garden VI

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Begins with soil. Ends with healing leaves. The end: City, River, Tree,  and Leaves.  The healing of the nations. The lost tree, Found again. Garden, Garden lost.  Garden prayed in, Garden risen in.  Garden at the heart of the new. Begins with soil. Ends with healing leaves. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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The Garden V

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Yet another garden, His tomb. Mary weeps, "Where is He?" Not the gardener,  yet the true gardener.  The one who planted Eden walks in the garden.  Death undone,  among the olive trees. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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The Garden IV

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Gethsemane. Oil press. A working garden. Trees, press, sweat. He kneels,  "not my will." Eden gate,  to Gethsemane.  Wrong choice,  to His choice.  Two gardens,  opposite ending. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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The Garden III

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Peace garden?  Alas not every garden is peaceful.  Bloodstained vineyard,  killing fields.  Land matters. People do terrible things to get it. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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The Garden II

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Land ruined people forgot.  The prophets image - a garden. Eden to dessert.  Desert to Eden. The waste ground, will grow again. "Made new" means garden. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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The Garden I

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In the beginning,  light a garden, no church no steeple.  Planted by God,  "Very Good" Dig it, keep it. -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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Gone to Church

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The long prayer, a sermon - closed eyes.  Don't fidget,  sit still.  Silence!  Autistic disregulation. This doesn't work,  is this church?  Inclusion?  Twenty minutes - still church.  Garden time,  home.  Still,  went to church.  -DTH- More at Line of Poetry
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