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In acceptance lies peace

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Karen Jones

Some things never change, no matter what we do.
My dog will continue to molt in and out of season.
I will still be vacuuming three times a week until the day she goes to doggy-heaven, and probably long after.

Weeds will continue to grow in my garden no matter how often I pull them up by the roots or spray them with weed killer.
The chestnut tree will still drop sticky buds, then white petals, then spiky chestnuts and finally leaves all over the place, no matter how many times I get it cut back.

My skin will continue to age despite the quality of the beauty products I put on it.
My hair will continue to go grey, showing at the roots, despite the skill of my hairdresser.
I will get shorter and fatter as the years go by, no matter how much I stretch or exercise.

Accepting these things isn't defeatism. It's realism and a choice to enjoy them while I wait on God.
It's not passivity. It's an entering into the fulness of life that flows in and through this now-and-not-yet.
It's a choice to be a person of peace.

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Leaning Hard

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Karen Jones

I am leaning hard on You,

No other is as substantial as You.

Life is a series of impossibilities,

But I hear your song through trees and birds and stars,

Through the warmth of spring sunshine's embrace,

Through the sticky-chocolate-crumb-kiss of a two year old,

Through ancient promises printed on gilt-edged page,

That all things are possible with You.

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Being Saved

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Karen Jones

 It's a present continuous idea - being saved. Working out your salvation with fear and trembling. Rising to newness of life every morning.     Choosing life in all its fulness rather than death. Living in the Presence - aware of Him - thankful to Him - worship, song, prayer, resisting temptations to sate desires outside of the boundary lines that have fallen in pleasant places.

Pleasant places - pleasant because thanks has been given there. Worship has been expressed. Trust has been exercised. Even the darkness will not be dark to You - the night will shine like the day. 

Thank You for the twenty-three years with my husband, the twenty years with my daughter, the two years apart and the eighteen years together. Thank you for the nine months with my first son and the sixteen years with my second son. 

Thank you for last year. Bitter-sweet. For my job loss - the chance to live by faith again - the freedom to be creative; for my father-in-law; for my mother-in-law; for my sons foot; my sisters kidney; my ankle, my thigh and my belly - the time of lying still, of not eating, of no words, of rest and restoration, of books and thoughts and images and sisters, parents, husband who cared.

And today thank You for hope, for dreams yet unfulfilled, nosing their way to the surface from their seedbed. Thank You for three years of creative process. Thank You for other Creatives, other Venturers. Thank You for today.

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The Wounded Healer Course by Karen Jones - Course outline

Wounded Healer

Karen says, “This course has been designed with the aim of equipping ordinary people in churches to be able to offer prayer for the ministry of healing—a complimentary service to medicine, counselling and psychotherapy in their communities. It is not a course that will make anyone an expert at healing, in fact my hope is that it will only serve to make us more aware of our own brokenness and our great need of God’s love and power. Perhaps much of the attractiveness of the early church was its’ vulnerability – its’ dependency upon God. Hopefully as we embark on this course together, we will find God in some of the darkest parts of our lives, where otherwise we have perhaps been too scared to look in case we shouldn’t find him there. In order to be able to help others in their darkest times we must be those who have been through our own and found God to be truly there. In short, we must receive to be able to give.

So come to this course to receive from God. Come prepared to need him more than you needed him before. Come so that you can enable others to come in the same way.”

This course is designed to gently take you through a theology, a model and a practice of healing and wholeness prayer. It is ideal as a refresher course for those who already practice prayer ministry or for those who are seeking to begin to practice for the first time.

It is a faith inspiring day, a safe space within which to experiment with prayer ministry and a resource full of practical tools. Karen is happy to teach retreat centre or church prayer ministry teams of any size.

You may even consider having a Wounded Healer Day for your whole church congregation.

Average times: 9.00a.m - 4.00p.m.
Cost: £200 + expenses.

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