Connecting Matters Blog
Welcome to the Connecting Matters blog—a space for reflection, inspiration, and practical wisdom. Here, we share insights on relationships, personal growth, and the journey of navigating life’s challenges with grace and resilience.
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When Love Leads: Unravelling Power, Holding Tenderness
Love, when truly embodied, is not passive or weak. It is a force that holds and heals, guides and shapes, leading with both tenderness and strength. Yet in a world that often equates love with submission or passivity, we are invited to explore the deeper, more complex dynamic between power and tenderness in relationships.
What My Body Remembered Part 5
I am discovering that healing does not require me to abandon the frightened child I once was. Instead, I can bring her with me into the safety of the present and the compassionate presence of God.
Guarded Hearts – Part 4
The word Paul uses for guard is a military term. It evokes the image of soldiers standing watch at the gates of a city, protecting something precious from harm. Peace, in this passage, is not a fleeting feeling or passive emotion. It is an active, protective presence.
Coming Home with Different Eyes – Part 3
Was it worth it? The question still reverberates.
The Answer I Wasn’t Expecting – Part 2
For weeks after returning home from Sri Lanka, one question keeps surfacing. “Lord… was it worth it?” It isn’t really about my fractured wrist, or the surgery, or the panic, or the sleepless nights or the loss of my wedding and engagement rings. Those were simply the final chapter of a much longer story.
When the One Who Has Been Carrying Everyone Else Falls – Part 1
As we flew out of Sri Lanka, I felt as though I had been torn away before I was ready. There had been no proper goodbye and no sense of closure. As the plane lifted over the palm trees and lush green landscape, a message arrived from a dear friend. “In a few moments you will be off the shores of Sri Lanka. Thank you, my friends, for the investment in our lives. Only heaven will tell you the impact you’ve had.”
The Crack in the Cup: Healing the Sacred Between Us
Love was never meant to pour endlessly from a broken cup. Yet many of us have tried, exhausting ourselves, hoping our efforts would be enough to fill another, or to silence our own emptiness. But marriage, like all human relationships, was never meant to replace the love that only God can give. It is not a solution to our brokenness, but a sacred space where our brokenness is revealed, and redeemed.
Back Where It All Began: The Garden Echoes Still
There is a quiet mystery in marriage, where joy and sorrow mingle, and our deepest desires are laid bare. We come with our hands full of hope and leave with hearts shaped by grace. In the ordinary moments of pain and tenderness, God invites us to see each other anew, not as fixers or saviours, but as fellow pilgrims learning how to love.
A Man Reimagined: Beyond the Armor and Into the Heart
True Biblical manhood is about carrying strength with restraint, exercising authority with humility, and wielding power with self-sacrificing love, the kind of manhood embodied perfectly by Jesus.
In His Image Too: Wrestling with Role, Calling, and Design
In a world that often defines manhood by external achievements or rigid societal expectations, the true calling of men can feel elusive. This article explores the profound question of what it truly means to be made in God’s image, not just as a reflection of power or dominance, but as an invitation to engage in vulnerability, responsibility, and spiritual authenticity. It calls men to wrestle with their identity, seeking to redefine roles and purpose not from the world’s standards, but through the deep well of divine calling.
He, Unmasked: The Tender Weight of Being a Man
“Show me a man who can listen to a woman and not try to fix her problem but rather just
Not a Checklist but a Flame: The Brave Woman of Valour
To deepen my understanding of complementarianism and egalitarianism, I turn to Proverbs 31. As I revisit Proverbs 31:10-31, I begin to see it through a fresh lens. This passage, often upheld as a blueprint for the “ideal woman,” introduces the eshet chayil, translated as the “wife of noble character” or, more vibrantly, the “woman of valour.”
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