the sound of rushing water...

It has taken some time for me to put my toe in the water on the blogging front - it has taken me about 3 months to move from intention to action! During the 3 month gestation period I had the thought that what we were attempting to do with this blogsite was to facilitate streams of stories....many voices being released. Immediately I connected with the vision of Jesus in Revelation 1 whose "voice was the sound of rushing waters".

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Markers on the margins and wild places

First walk of the new year took us to North Gower and the tidal island that has for some time been a wild place on the margins, not just of urban, suburban or comfortable life but a place where past generations of Celtic saints lived, prayed, preached and stepped off into their own wild journeys (good title for a book there!). The wind took the temperature to sub zero but the light, the sea, the space washed over our spirits in a cleansing flow.

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Antioch landing in 2010

The New Year came in with a jolt, like the touchdown of aircraft wheels landing in a different country. A new year and we will have a new government by the end of it. I also have a sense of 2010 being a governmental year for Antioch and that we will see governmental shifts in the kingdom of God advancing through our lives. Ordinary people ruling in the midst of difficult circumstances and seeing the earth and dust of our lives shaped and formed by the power of the Holy Spirit rather than prevailing cultural norms – both inside and outside the church.

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