A devastated township causes reflective thinking.
All posts by John Kidson
A pause in the journey
Taking time out to ponder and reflect can bring us more than simple rest.
Making it official
Ohh he had waited calmly, his patience only stretched and tempered with hope; he could not know her past joyful-pain… could not conceive her future hopeful-pain…
Covid: restrictions, protests and …
More than ever, we need grace and truth to get through all of this.
Living in a broken world
Hope at Easter and Anzac
Sombre thoughts and wild ecstatic celebration, death and resurrection, a breathless determination to find hope.
Out the front after Christmas
Remembering Christmas: kids, mowing and soldiers.
The week after…
Seen through the eyes of Joseph, here is a Christmas story of visions and dreams, of love and destiny.
20-20 Vision
What is our role as ‘future leader-shapers’? What should be education’s aim? Surely we must go beyond giving hope of likely post-Covid employment after graduating.
Avoiding the (frozen) Cold Shoulder?
After reluctantly going under the knife, the old granny psalm’ you never appreciate what you have until it’s gone’ can become more relevant than ever. A short medical story from pre-COVID times.