To the Battle Weary: Part 3 - The Secret to Gaining Ground
So battles are all about shifting boundaries and gaining ground, and as we’re pushed back out of the comfort of community and forced...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
To the Battle Weary: Part 2 - Lay Down the Load
Battle-weary one, are you wondering how to go on? Are you remembering old messages that teach, “You Say I Am Strong when I think I am...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Jun 9, 2021
- 3 min
To The Battle Weary: Part 1 - Identify the Enemy
It’s not my first battle. Not your first, either. We’ve stood, you and me, in all-out spiritual battlefields and seen the power of life...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Nov 9, 2020
- 3 min
Run Unhindered | Run Your Race
Wisdom revealed shines a light on the figure of Jesus running undaunted towards the cross. He is the Champion of all champions, carrying...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Nov 2, 2020
- 3 min
Grounding Presence | Run Your Race - Part One
2020 has floating days that pass, unharnessed, like so many dandelion seeds in the breeze. Unruly thoughts swirl just out of reach—of no...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Aug 15, 2019
- 3 min
Hope Makes Way for the Miracle
Hope is the highway to our desired future. When we keep hoping, we keep pushing, we keep running, we keep watering, we keep praying...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Jun 5, 2019
- 3 min
Living Bare
I sit in front of my keyboard and find myself unable to write more than a sentence on any given subject. As I look to express the various...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- May 15, 2019
- 3 min
And Now The Church (in which the neurosurgeon finds no further excuse to see Kiara...)
“Kiara, I’m running out of questions to ask you,” the neurosurgeon joked. "You really don't need any further medical treatment..."
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- May 11, 2019
- 2 min
How God Sees Me
Oh, how I love the attention God pays to the detail. And why should we be surprised? The God who delighted in defining the atom, in...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- May 7, 2019
- 2 min
Fresh Air Healing
And why should we expose the weaknesses and faults, the sins and shortcomings in our lives? There is a danger to “hanging it all out there”.
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Apr 11, 2019
- 2 min
The Great Faithfulness of God
I’m nearly swallowed whole as we start 2019 two weeks ago. (Two weeks?! Feels like a whole term!) Kiara is back in the mix with her...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Mar 4, 2019
- 2 min
Living Liquid
I’m living normal, going to gym, doing my own shopping in my sweaty running kit and bright pink takkies. I’m reading the specials and...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Feb 22, 2019
- 3 min
Letting Down My Guard
We are home. The make-up on my face, the self-sufficiency on my shoulders, the girding of my abdomen in anticipation of a blow... I allow...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Feb 15, 2019
- 5 min
Heads Up, Heads Down
I find that sympathy breaks my focus. When I’m climbing a vertical slope out of a hot valley, and my husband keeps asking me if I’m okay,...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Feb 12, 2019
- 3 min
Distraction and Focus
Words and life have always been synonymous for me. I struggle with small talk, and with what I would call ‘gushy’ compliments. I find...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Feb 7, 2019
- 4 min
Remember to Celebrate
Where do I begin to tell today’s story? In the midst of the pain or with the news of the victory? That is so often the question. The last...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Feb 1, 2019
- 4 min
Friends who Fight and Friends who Listen
Kiara has always been able to process emotions quietly and deeply. She seldom has need to talk about them, and when she does release what...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Jan 30, 2019
- 4 min
Detours & Destinies
Samuel is nine years old. He joined our family when he was about six. Being originally Zulu, his grasp of technical English is still...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Jan 28, 2019
- 4 min
Grief & Gratitude
I went silent on you after we arrived home on Friday - distracted partially by gratitude, partially by grief. Gratitude, because every...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Jan 24, 2019
- 2 min
Faith Trumps Hope
“If they don’t let us go home tomorrow, I’m seriously gonna scream!” Kiara is grinning as she says it, but it’s a true word spoken in...
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