Tui Motu InterIslands Magazine
Inspiration from Tui Motu
God breaks through the boxes that we or others want to fit us into. Magazine. Issue 160, May 2012: 19. Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Visit usin breath of windin endurance of cliffsin glow of kōwhaiin silence of starsin solitude of moonin eyes of the poorin embrace of ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Christianity is messy and complicated. It confronts the human condition unflinchingly and therefore truthfully. It has no simple ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Economist Amartya Sen argues that our aim should be to expand the "capabilities of people to lead the kind of lives they value — and ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Anytime people are moved to act with the Spirit for the sake of the environment or a threatened species, it is a reminder that humans ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
I have come to learn that the Spirit "moves" in us essentially in two forms — what opens, enlivens and moves us, and what repulses us ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Source of all beingEternal WordAbundance of our earth We seek you in the patience of the oceanthe fertility of the soilthe grandeur ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
We realise that our lives are not measured by our own definitions of success and failure but by our willingness to engage in the ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
It is the senses that fill the heart. Magazine. Issue 165, October 2012: 20. Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
There is no energy left for dancing when we are not living the life we love, but rather the life expected of us. Magazine. Issue ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Hope persists in our lives... As the poet Emily Dickinson says: Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches on the soul,And sings the ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Oh do not grieve, my beautiful and beloved child. My heart breaks with love for you. You are breath of my breath and pulse of my ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
I have had it with perfectionI have packed my bagsI am out of here Gone. Perfection straineth out the quality of mercy, withers ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
We can leave the last say with American poet Leonard Cohen. He celebrates imperfection with these words: Ring the bells that still ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
We have life-giving strands, threads of hope and grace, woven into our DNA. These are God threads. We are God-enriched. God-infused. Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
We celebrate Easter time... When we contemplate the wonder and beauty of this country, planet, universe we also make time to be at one ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
I think about my life coming to an end... If our dying is the winter time of our life, then autumn is the time of gathering in ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Where the yeast of love will rise,bubbling with God's new enterprise,Christ is living, Christ is moving,Christ is working through the ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Engaging with suffering humanity has its hard moments, of course, but compassion brings its own strength and courage. Magazine. ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
The Holy Spirit will not be confined. There is an untouchable part of all of us that senses this with a knowledge beyond knowing. It ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
It may be when we no longer know what to doWe have come to our real work,And that when we no longer know which way to go We have come ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
The greatest question of them all, of course, is which is really the greater sin in a time of doubt: the use of force to keep standard ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
The best preparation for a good death is a good life. A life that is generous, adventurous, humble, festive, accepting, honest and ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
An offence may consume us with grievance and anger. Yet if we ourselves remain unforgiving we may be giving others poison rather than ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
I went on a campand I found God, not in a book, or prayer,not even in a song.But I found God living and laughing Magazine. Issue 34, ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
It has given me a huge sense of being loved and supported. I feel my God is ; God is in relationships. The response was there in the ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
We may speak at times of the Spirit's presence as disturbing or disrupting. We may speak of such presence as confirming and ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Wherever you may find yourself on the journey of life, the answer lies in pressing forward into the unknown where God waits quietly. ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
What is asked of the Christian community is not just forgiveness, but also wise judgement; not just release from the past, but also ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Opening the door to mercy is a personal as well as a community challenge. Just as a door is an entry and an exit, so the work of mercy ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
I walked back up Queen Street. It was alive with people. Everything has its own inner tapu, Eddo had said. Now I wasn't battling this ... Read more…Inspiration from Tui Motu
Give me the breadth of vision that takes in the sides as well as the foreground and background; give me the "matter in hand" that ... Read more…
