Jaci Mun-Gavin
One Year On
It’s déjà vu here at Number 23. Rich is in the pool washing off the sweat and brick dust after a couple of hours of perfecting the house...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min
Keeping It Fresh - Lost in the Dust - Part 5
I’m typing super-loudly today, hoping you can hear me over the bang, bang, bang of builders undoing work they just did yesterday. We are...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Oct 19, 2019
- 2 min
Keeping It Fresh - Wear YOUR Yoke - Part 4
Are you weary and weighed down with more than you can handle? “Come to me,” Jesus says. “I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis....
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Oct 16, 2019
- 4 min
Keeping It Fresh - United with Life Itself - Part 3
How do you dry your hair after you’ve washed it? I’m one of those who throws my hair forward over my head and hangs upside down, blowing...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Oct 10, 2019
- 3 min
Keeping It Fresh - What's Killing You? - Part Two
We finally did a long-awaited alteration at home - knocking down a braai area and rebuilding the garden wall closer to our driveway to...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Oct 8, 2019
- 2 min
Keeping it Fresh - Part One
How do we Stay Alive and Fresh in a Dead and Dying World? How do we stay alive and fresh in a dead and dying world? I don’t know if it’s...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Sep 28, 2019
- 3 min
Just Clap
Have you ever raced against your own “personal best”? “PB” they call it, and it frees one runner to clap for another, each running an...
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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 29, 2019
- 3 min
Minute Miracles in the Middle
Twenty-nineteen, the year that started with a stroke of the cheek from a waking miracle, has accelerated as fast as the miraculous...
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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 15, 2019
- 3 min
Sweet Brokenness
The morning after Kiara’s first shower, I am surprised to see her come through to the lounge for school with her head uncovered. Our...
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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 28, 2019
- 3 min
Words Fly Like Frisbees
Words are flying in the morning as the children come rushing into our bedroom demanding justice. This one said that and that one...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Mar 19, 2019
- 3 min
Death’s Dark Mysteries and Blood-Red Life
My heart can’t lay down the bereaved parents who have followed our journey with passionate prayers and broken dreams. I write a post and...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Mar 12, 2019
- 3 min
Labels & Light
Kiara has recently noticed that she is unable to raise her left eyebrow. She tries to look surprised, but looks skeptical instead, and we...
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Jaci Mun-Gavin
- Mar 7, 2019
- 4 min
A Sign and A Wonder
I’m peering into the bathroom mirror, watching the reflection of Kiara nimbly plaiting my hair in her special fancy way, and remembering...
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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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