selah vie

"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Recently, I tested a simple bible study method of note-taking directly off the passage. This usually involves a copy of the passage, either a screenshot that you can write on digitally on an iPad or tablet, or in my case written out into a notebook. Then, you make highlights, underlines, and write notes as you read the passage. Ordinarily, it would look something like this: The point is that devotional time doesn't always have to be in tidy full sentences or long paragraphs, sometimes it can just be a collection of notes on a passage that already has plenty to say to us! For ...

This is a new branch of the Selah Vie Project, which has been running on Instagram for several years now. I may not post here on a strict schedule, but I will aim for around once a week and see where it goes! It is my prayer that these posts will be an encouragement to even one person who reads, and that God would use it in whatever way he may bless it.  Happy reading!

After professing my intention to post regularly on here, it has now already been far too long since my previous post, so I suppose I start already on a note of being humbled. (Insert the usual myriad of excuses - life, parenting, priorities etc.) Of course the point of these posts isn't for me to look great and put together, so it's only fitting.   "On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last." Acts 12:21-23, ESV (via Bible Gateway )  Recently (now some time ago, as this one has been in drafts for a while!), we read Acts chapter 12, and something about the demise of Herod struck me. God smote him down, but that is not suprising in itself. Herod was a man who, we can probably all agree, deserved ...

  "Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him." 1 Corinthians 7:17  Lately, I have been pondering what it means to be content.  In the last six months, I have left a job I loved, given birth, and then three months later left all our family, home, church family and the only country I have ever lived in to move to a new country for three years while my husband studies for ministry. Now don't get me wrong. I love our life! I love our baby boy, who is the absolute light of my life (despite his entry into the world being a bit traumatic and leaving some physical and emotional wounds yet to be healed). I am fully supportive of my husband studying for ministry, and have been from the very start - we are very excited to see where the Lord continues to lead us. Yet at the same time, I am homesick - for my old home, my friends and family, my church, even occasionally for my old job and the working life. The shift into stay-...