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Reflection of the Week - 20 May 2025

No matter the religion or denomination in which we are raised, our spirituality still comes through the first filter of our own life experience. We must begin to be honest about this instead of pretending that any of us are formed exclusively by scriptures or our churches or religious traditions. There is no such thing as an entirely unbiased position. The best we can do is own and be honest about our own filters. God allows and invites us to trust our own experience.

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Reflection of the Week - 13 May 2025

I am just like you. My immediate response to most situations is with reactions of attachment, defensiveness, judgment, control, and analysis. I am better at calculating than contemplating. Let’s admit that most of us start there. The false self seems to have the “first gaze” at almost everything. 

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Reflection of the Week - 29 April 2025

Are we working with the poor or choosing to be in solidarity with them? Are we squandering our time or seizing time as a constant opportunity to discover more about ourselves, our neighbours, and our God?

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Reflection of the Week - 22 April 2025

When you touch the hand of a returning friend, you already know that he will have to leave you again. When you are moved by the quiet vastness of a sun-colored ocean, you miss the friend who cannot see the same.

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Reflection of the Week - 15 April 2025

When you touch the hand of a returning friend, you already know that he will have to leave you again. When you are moved by the quiet vastness of a sun-colored ocean, you miss the friend who cannot see the same.

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Reflection of the Week - 1st April 2025

‘And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.’

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Reflection of the Week - 25th March 2025

Jesus says, ‘Think about the Kingdom first and all the other things you are so worried about will fall into place. Why are you so worried? Why are you so preoccupied? Why are you so afraid?

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Reflection of the Week - 11th March 2025

For us the future is often a source of anxiety and fear. We have all kinds of questions: What if my children get sick, I lose my job, my wife or husband leaves me, or a war breaks out?

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Reflection of the Week - 4th March 2025

When we are spiritually deaf, we are not aware that anything important is happening in our lives. We keep running away from the present moment, and . . .

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Resthaven celebrates its 90th anniversary

Resthaven is proud to celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2025 with a series of events, activities and concerts to be held across all Resthaven’s residential, community services and retirement lifestyle sites.

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Reflection of the Week - 25th February 2025

I have only the desire to remain close to that place in me where I can hear the voice that calls me ‘my son, my beloved,’ and that will tell me what to do, say, or write when the time for it has come.

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Anne comes ‘full circle’, returning to Resthaven Mitcham.

For Resthaven Mitcham resident Anne Joyce, it’s almost as if things have come full circle. Anne enjoyed a 22-year career at the Resthaven site, and in May 2024 returned to her old stomping ground as a resident. Sharing a birth year with Resthaven – both are celebrating 90 years in 2025 – Anne says that a life of hard work and dedication has brought her great satisfaction. It was a chance meeting in the car park that led to her employment at Resthaven.

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‘’Fun Raising’’ – Flip Those Pancakes

Barbara was in serious need of help. On her own, with a heart condition, two bad hips, and a shoulder injury, she’d already lost the last of her sheep to the drought and the floods.