Whose Image?

The new Mission Impossible movie showcases what the world could be brought to the brink of, if AI technology got that smart. Hmm...is the idea that AI could outsmart humans one day really that far-fetched? The university I am studying my Masters through has just made an official statement about the use of AI by …

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When Life Gives You Lemons

Have you heard the phrase when life gives you lemons, make lemonade? The tree on the left with the one lonely lemon is ours. Impossible to make lemonade out of that! We have a huge yard and little time, so if our trees don't learn how to survive with minimal loving care from us, it's …

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Be Like Bonnie

Do you remember almost ten years ago when stick figure drawings of  "Be like Bill" were the craze? All of a sudden social media was flooded with people creating their own personalized memes of why we should "Be like Bill." It was amusing for a while, but like any craze it soon lost momentum. Let …

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What Price for Peace?

Do you have peace? I'm not talking about peace in your circumstances but peace in your soul. The peace Jesus assured for His followers when He said, "Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor fearful."(John …

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Assignments and Calling

The very word "assignment" casts my mind (way) back to high school. Nothing used to strike fear into senior students more than a maths assignment handed out by Mr Payne. The assignments were always notoriously difficult, and with trembling we would cast our eyes over the requirements and inwardly groan, knowing there was a high likelihood …

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Searching for Grace

Have you ever lost something and were desperate to find it? Three decades ago I had a dream in which I was searching for a child called Grace. I had to find Grace. The dream impacted me greatly at the time, and I woke from it knowing that if I ever had a daughter, she …

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Destination Home

The longest dead straight road on the planet is found in Australia. It stretches 1100 kilometres (684 miles) across the Nullarbor Plain between South and West Australia. There's no way you can get lost because there are literally no detours. Aussies call it the Nullar-boring, because of its lack of visual stimulation! Sometimes we expect …

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Testing, Testing, 1..2..3!

This was my guest blog post as it appeared on David's Daily Dose a while back. If you don't yet follow David, please do! His writing is always relevant, encouraging, and delivered with punch! At a visit to my husband's work a while back he sat me in the recording studio, put headphones on my …

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The Contentment Stealer

What would you say is one of the greatest contentment stealers? Here are some clues to one: Everyone does it. We naturally and developmentally begin to do this from the age of about five. It's particularly prevalent during our adolescent identity-forming years. There is a healthy version of this thing and an unhealthy version. The …

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