You can do life with anxiety and stress as constant companions, or you can face the same hurdles and trials with peace. Your hand tucked into the hand of your Abba Father.

Will we believe what our circumstances and feelings seem to say or will we choose another narrative? Will we choose the truth?

That choice is ours.

I love Dahlias - I've just discovered them. Hadn’t really known about them before, and I had certainly never planted any, but this past summer I had a go, resulting in a glorious chaotic jumble of flowers and leaves and long stems, all tripping and falling over one another! But what joy! Every time I open the front door, I can’t help but smile and a sense of gratitude arises within me for this stunning display of glory and wonder, for the transformation of seed to flower, for the sense of summer that they bring to my little patch, even when the sun is not shining.

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Do you think it’s truly possible to find real contentment, despite what is going on in our lives? Do you believe that, as followers of Jesus, we can live in a place where the traumas and troubles, the chaos and confusion of life, both corporate and personal, does not steal from us our joy and our peace? And is there such a ‘place’ where this rest runs so deeply, that it is more powerful than that which threatens to destabilise and rock our worlds?