COME AS YOU ARE A poem written by Pearl I came to the end of myself one Tuesday—no fireworks, no angel choir, just me, knees on carpet, pride on the floor, realizing I’d been trying to polish pieces I didn’t even know how to hold. See… I used to think holiness was a […]
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“You do not demand from us what You have not already poured out in infinite measure.” The voice of one who cries… We got to know Charles Idu through the messages he would send to us and many others over WhatsApp back in 2023. Some of these are featured on the Living Stones Unearthed page,
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So, you guessed it, whoever drew this picture did so out of a curiosity for the dynamic. Subject rotating ninety degrees clockwise to be precise. They took one great Victorian painting and twizzled it round and messed about with it. They obviously liked the rusty studs and hinges and the effect they had had on
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and Sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is
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“Work with your hands, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” -1 Thess. 4:11-12 What can happen when young minds are challenged to be still and rely on their imaginations? Timothy Christian Murphy describes the journey leading a summer course in
On Wednesday evenings, when I am on baby duties with Eden, our 8 month old daughter, she does the same thing every time! Every time I put her in the feeding chair ready for dinner, she does the exact same thing! As I go into the kitchen for 3 minutes to prepare her food, she
We don’t need to do anything special to initiate a meeting with Him. We simply need to tap into His presence all around us, the presence that constantly flows through the universe giving life and shaping the physical and spiritual spaces we occupy making all things work together for his purpose. (1 Col. 1:15-21). God
“Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.” 1 Samuel 17:49 NIV Sometimes it feels as though when the giants left this world, the giant slayers went with them.
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“The Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, rebuke your disciples!’ ‘I tell you,’ He replied, ‘if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.’” Luke 19.39-40 https://youtube.com/watch?v=nbOVn5m3KOY&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE This project is a culmination of one year of research and six months of design work based around Purbeck Stone. Endeavoring to understand this material, beginning
The following is the opening excerpt from “Medicine for a Daydream” written by Christian Murphy. I used to keep all my thoughts inside my head and not share them with anyone. Keeping others at a safe distance would allow them to observe what I had constructed without coming close enough to understand what I
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