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Devotions Day 18

Sheer Delight

by Pastor Karen Runjo


I went to visit a friend recently who was outside with a 2-year-old in her garden. She’s mentioned before that he’s an ‘outside boy’ but what I got to see for myself was way beyond that!

He ran laughing across the lawns. He giggled as he spread his bare arms to run through the plants. He twirled, ran some more and expressed sheer delight as he enjoyed all things green! What a thing to witness.

I feel like Adam and then Eve must have felt like that in the Garden of Eden, discovering, delighting and rejoicing in all of God’s creation. The amazement they must have felt in the variety of creation - every quirky animal, flowering bush and fruiting tree, waterfalls and creeks, stars and planets. Every day we are surrounded by creation that is speaking to us about God 

“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world” (Psalm 19)


Prayer thought / Challenge:

Today we get to share in and experience the beautiful setting of Yatahlia Manor. Take some time to explore and take in the tranquil surroundings.

Creative challenge:

There will be some art supplies there and, of course, your phone’s camera, to capture some of God’s beauty seen in his creation at our picnic spot today. 

Boy Toddler, smelling pink flowers in a garden surrounded by green foliage.

Devotion Day 6

White flowers

by Pastor Karen Runjo



We have a joke in my house that white flowers don’t belong. I just don’t understand having such beauty and no colour! Conversely, I have 2 friends who pretty much only have white flowers in their garden 😊

There are some exceptions I have – a frangipani with its stunning scent and bold yellow centre, a chrysanthemum for its Mother’s Day memories, snowdrops perhaps because they are so dainty and decorative but in general I don’t enjoy white flowers.

Sometimes we have white flower moments in our lives. The moments we are going through that might seem mundane and colourless and we might feel like we are just going through the motions. Ecclesiastes 2:11 says God has made everything beautiful in its time. So if we have white flower moments in this time, there is some beauty they are meant to be adding to our lives but sometimes we need eyes to see beyond the bright colours of other moments.



Prayer Thought:

Let’s pray today and ask God to help us see the beauty in the white flower moments of our lives – either present or past.