Ann Hutchison
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Was she an angel?
Ann here! My friends, I am asking myself if I saw an angel a few weeks ago. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Hebrews 1:14, KJV) I wonder if we should be more receptive and open to the fact that angels are here.…
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The Constant Month of Adventure
Ann here! This month the team is going to be writing about how we grow our faith, sharing experiences of things we have had. So, it’s my turn. One of the things I do deliberately to keep my faith alive is keep an ongoing record of every single thing I sense God do for me.…
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My Praying Mum
Ann here! My friends, I am currently in England, visiting my Mum. Here’s a picture of us, taken today … I feel today that I want to honor my lovely mum for her strength of faith. She became a Christian when she was about 19 or 20, having grown up in a home that was…
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What God Secrets Are Yours?
Ann here! My friends, I want to say something to you today: God holds secrets about your life that are majestic to your heart. Take a look at the photo here of a bend that goes around the corner. God holds secrets about your future that only he knows…. …. What is round that bend?…
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Difficult Relationships — One Strategy
Hello friends, Ann here. We’ve been talking about difficult relationships for a while on here now. So many of us have difficult relationships, either in our home, or in our extended family. Some of these difficulties are quite severe. There are a few strategies, spiritually, for dealing with difficult people. But one I like the…
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When God Gives A Promise …
Friends, Ann here. I want to talk about the topic of promises today. I am doing so because my book, The Pair-Shaped Promise describes the story of how I carried a promise from God deep in my heart, I believed it would happen. And it did. But without meaning to spoil the book…. there is…
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When a Man Prays …
Hey friends, Ann here. Want to hear something cool…? Two weeks ago on Monday I had a really difficult time. Things in my extended family have been difficult for about 18 months – but they rared up again on the day my book was released. Grr. The timing, huh. It was so bad that I…
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Um, Babe, I’ve Written a Book… Part Two
To read part one of this story, click here. My friends, we left off on Monday with my husband sitting on a rocking chair, reading my book manuscript, quietly… This act alone sent me into a spiral of serious trauma. I basically fell into bed unable to function for that whole Sunday. Every now and…
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Um, Babe, I’ve Written a Book… And It’s Sort of About Us
Hi my friends, Ann here. Ok, now I’m going to tell you the back-story to this book, and how I shared it with Bryce. Let’s go back nine years ago. Bryce and I were in our early forties then and we were in the thick of our SUM situation. He would take the boys out…
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Would He or Wouldn’t He? Would My Husband Join Me in Faith?
I believed I had been given a promise from God that my husband would join me in faith, and we would be of one mind. It seemed God was giving me signs. But was it truly a promise from God, or was it my imagination? I was sufficiently convinced. So, I decided to believe the…
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Introducing Ann’s New Book
Hello friends, Ann here Over the last few years, I have been writing my testimony up into a book, and it is finally about to be published! Here it is — The Pair-Shaped Promise: A True Story of Faith and a Promise Kept. It is a story of my own coming to faith, it is…
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Let’s Talk About Abuse and Reconciliation
Hello my friends, Ann here. Lynn is talking about such an important topic at the moment: Difficult personalities in families. I think many of us deal with a situation or two in our family where there is someone with a difficult personality. Would that be true to say? If I look at Bryce’s and my…
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When God puts you in the Marketplace
Hello friends, Ann here! I have been on quite the fast-moving journey the last two months, and I might share a little of that today, so here goes: I have recently gone back into the world of work and study. As I mentioned in a previous post, I am retraining as a coaching psychologist; and…
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Balancing our Spouse and our Faith
Hello everyone How are you all, I wonder? It has been a while! I hope the fast went well for you. Well, today I’m actually a little raw. We have ‘raw’ days sometimes. This week my lovely hubby expressed that I’m charging off without him into stuff that I am interested in, leaving him alone.…
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If I don’t have my marriage …
Hello friends, Ann here. I was sitting in the sunshine with some Christian friends the other day, and I said this: “My marriage, as a Christian, is everything. If I pursue all kinds of other things in my faith life, but end up without my marriage, I will have lost a big treasure. Marriage is…
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Jellybean Trails
Ann here! My friends, can I share today one thing in my Christian life that I hold very close as an important life rule? It burns in me, in fact. It’s this: God will guide our life journey and tell us where to go next, whether it’s a house move, a person, a church, a…
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Home to this New Home
Hello SUMites, it’s Ann here and it’s been a while! While Lynn has been busy setting up this new website, us writers have been taking a break. But now it’s time for us to re-emerge – yay! I’m looking forward to reconnecting again with you. Last time I wrote I was travelling round Europe with…
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Psalm 1 – A Wisdom Psalm
Hello, Ian from sunny Sydney. It’s still a bit chilly as we’re now in the final month of winter here but I especially love a sunny winter’s day. I love the Psalms. I’ve been reading, praying, singing a psalm most days for the last ten years. They’ve been invaluable in my learning to pray. Why?…
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Prayer Grows our Relationship with God
Photo courtesy of Aslak Sutherland and Pexels.com Hello, my SUMite friends. It’s a chilly winter’s day in Sydney. But the sun has come out after a morning of drizzle and cloud. I’ve been studying growing relationally with Lord through our prayer both individually and within a corporate church environment. One element struck me that I…
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Lent Update … “I am doing a new thing!”
Hello, dear friends. Ian from autumnal Sydney here. Autumn is my favourite season and even though we’re almost halfway through it, we’re only beginning to feel those early morning chills that remind us that summer is past, and a new season is upon us. How has Lent been for you all? It’s a healthy practice…
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Lent – an adventure of the heart!
Hello, dear, SUMite friends. I trust this post finds you in a good place. Two post ago, my New Year’s post, I shared my ‘Word for the year. ‘Adventure’! I’ve held onto that ever since and wondered what adventure lay ahead. I had a hunch it would be something specifically with the Lord and would…