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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Dec 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    Ephphatha: What does it mean to ‘Be Opened’?

    When I was four years old, I stepped off a train, misjudged the distance and fell through the gap between the train and the platform. Wer...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • May 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Wisdom of Tendrils

    It’s a Wednesday and I’m confined to barracks while I await my Covid-19 test results. The perimeter of my yard is as far as I’m allowed t...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • May 27, 2020
    • 3 min

    Ignition

    A friend of a friend exited the shops one day only to discover her car was missing. Assuming she’d forgotten where she’d parked it, she m...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Mar 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    A Prayer for Panic-Buyers

    God of Comfort, Some of us are freaking out and we're turning to tangible things like toilet paper canned beans and packets of baby wipes

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Feb 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    Can You Forgive Someone Without an Apology?

    A few years ago, an old book came into my possession – a book with a back story so intriguing, I barely slept for two days for thinking a...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Feb 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Choose Life - a drama based on Deuteronomy 30:15-20

    Hi, my name's Moses. You may remember me from such speeches as the ten commandments and that time I parted the Red Sea.

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Nov 23, 2019
    • 8 min

    A Survival Guide to ME/CFS

    I've spent the past twenty odds years quietly recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. For this reason, I'm often asked for advice by pe...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Oct 16, 2019
    • 3 min

    Exiled from the Heart: coming home to myself

    There are three things I know about my paternal grandmother: She was born in 1891 in a small village in Holland. During the Second World ...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Apr 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    An Easter Blessing

    My friend and fellow poet, Mandy Langlois, has written an Easter blessing especially for my congregation. Since its message is universal,...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Apr 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    Watercolour Poetry

    It's been a long time since I wrote a poem – a good couple of years by my calculations. However, after attending my first ever watercolou...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Mar 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    Jesus Tempted in the Desert – Part 3: Lessons from the Wilderness

    Lessons from the wilderness 1. You can’t avoid the wilderness. Many, if not all of us, have had wilderness experiences – times when we’ve...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Mar 20, 2019
    • 3 min

    Jesus Tempted in the Desert - Part 2: Temptation as wound within not evil 'out there'

    What is the Process of Temptation? I don’t believe the cause of temptation is external. Rather, I believe it stems from an inner wound. T...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Mar 20, 2019
    • 4 min

    Jesus Tempted in the Desert – Part 1: The first 39 days

    Shortly before I learned to walk, my mum took me to a friend’s house that was filled with pots of brightly-coloured cyclamens. The moment...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Nov 27, 2018
    • 4 min

    How Christians (Mis)use the Bible to Defend Human Rights Abuse on Manus & Nauru

    Flabbergasted and angry. That's how I felt as I read a recent post by the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), Mart...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Jun 13, 2018
    • 4 min

    The Sound of a Glacier Melting: Reflections on Thawing our Frozen Gifts

    ‘Then, at his command, it all melts. He sends his winds, and the ice thaws.’ – Psalm 147:18 (NLT) When I was in high school, my Year Eigh...

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    Marianne Musgrove
    • Feb 17, 2018
    • 4 min

    Locusts & Wild Honey: Finding Nourishment in the Desert

    When my health collapsed in my late twenties, it was as if I’d been air-dropped – SAS style – into a wilderness survival course. I found ...

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