I am an ordinary person who has been overwhelmed by God’s amazing and surprising love.

For Anna, in the Bible, the key to being in God’s presence and encountering him was to remain in the Temple, worshipping, praying and fasting (Luke 2: 36-37).  For others I know, dance – engaging their whole bodies in worship – has been the instrument to developing greater and deeper intimacy with God, as well as receiving his healing and revelation.  For me it has been meditating on passages in the Bible; dwelling on them, thinking about how they make me feel.  This is what has helped me to encounter God; to get into and linger in his presence, like Joshua in the Tent of Meeting.  And it has profoundly changed my relationship with him.

He has not only opened my eyes to the abundance of his word and the truth within it, he has also revealed his heart and has gently opened mine.  He has caused my soul to awake.  He has caused a surprising love to well up within me.