Posts from February 2025

Wasting Time with God   A few weeks ago I packed up some panniers, jumped on my bike, and rode off for a three- day personal retreat. It was a mix of ‘active’ resting, journalling, sleeping and amateur attempts at contemplative prayer. My primary objective throughout the retreat was to ‘be present to the present.’  To keep gently drawing myself back to each moment and simply, slowly pay attention to who and what was there.  I hoped the slow down and refocus…

A few weeks back our whanau got to experience a river swim in the Waihopai River, while visiting family at the Top of the South.  We had been hopeful of a river swim earlier in the day when we’d packed our picnic lunch and togs in expectation.  Our picnic spot was idyllic, but when we went in search of the river, we found that it had dried up to a trickle!  Not only that, we saw a dead possum sitting…