Tamie Davis is an Aussie living in Tanzania, writing at meetjesusatuni.com.
10 years ago, we filmed the promo video ‘It was a long bus journey…’ Filmed in Adelaide, but telling a story of Tanzania, it invited partners to join us as we headed from Adelaide to Tanzania with CMS Australia. There have been obvious changes in our appearances and we were […]
A local church here in Dar posted an explanation (in English) about why Good Friday is called good. Their answer was that it is good because his death leads to a resurrection, so in the end it is good news. They mention that his suffering was for our salvation but […]
The first three months of the year really do suck. Our birthday followed by the anniversary of Red Twin’s death in quick succession. I do not have a plan for Tuesday. It’s not disorganisation. I’ve known the date was coming. It’s hard not to. Apart from the fact 22 March […]
Dear Red Twin I’m 39 tomorrow. You’ll always be 35 I guess. I keep thinking I’ll stumble onto a way where I’ll feel OK about my/our birthday but here we are at no.4 and I’m at a loss again. I don’t sleep, I don’t want to see anyone, I don’t […]
The days after Christmas sometimes feel like a sigh of relief. All the preparations are over, the events catered for, the presents unwrapped. In Australia it means now the summer holidays really begin. As a child, though, I remember feeling a bit let down the day after Christmas. After all, […]
We received the sad news this morning that the senior pastor at our church when we were downtown died very suddenly. It was a big church and I did not know him personally but I learned a great deal from Pastor Ranwell and am thankful for his ministry. One sermon […]
In no particular order… Devotion, Hannah Kent Readers of Kent’s other books Burial Rites and The Good People, will recognise the connection with physicality and place, as well as the spiritual backdrop and themes. Devotion is a novel about the German religious refugees who settled in Hahndorf in South Australia. […]
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