Kim serves as a Uniting Church Chaplain at the University of Newcastle. Her professional experience includes adult education, human services, research, counselling, pastoral supervision, congregational ministry, and spiritual care. She enjoys encouraging people’s growth as unique and fully alive humans. For replenishment and fun, she reads/writes fiction, explores family history, plays music, hangs out with loved ones, and wanders around the beautiful bush and waterways of Lake Macquarie.
Moses had a very checkered life – privileged Royal and murderer, so he seeks obscurity and an ordinary existence.
God had other ideas. Moses encounters the burning bush and God speaks to him.
The bush became like a standard widescreen phenomenon – a bit out of the ordinary.
An abrupt intrusion of God into his life.
Pastor Kim offers an excellent exploration of a difficult parable in which risks and sacrifices are
needed in a tricky situation.
Alluding to the Kingdom of God, where there are not always even matches or perfect balances, but in which grace abounds as we hear God’s message “Maybe you don’t think you have enough or are enough. Give me what you can and come as you are. You can start afresh!”
Mark’s Gospel makes no mention of a baby in a manger, shepherds or angels.
In Mark we are introduced to the grown up, ready to act Jesus.
Be revitalized by knowing this Jesus, attuned to our darkness of despair, disbelief and aching loneliness that affects many humans today. This is where we find the ‘Gold’ without the ‘Glitter’.
A famous USA musician tried to cut through the noise of rush hour with his powerful music.
Do we ever expect anything
extraordinary in the ordinary?
Jesus showed in extraordinary ways
who he was by what he was doing.
Our human experience can never be separated from the well-being of our planet. Wisdom can be ‘home spun’ by letting the earth and it’s creatures speak to us.
