Kia ora, I’m Maja.

(“May-ah” like mayonnaise, not “Mar-jah” like margarine… if that helps).

I’m married to Dave, and mum to four daughters (yes 4, and yes I’m glad they’re all girls). I’m an ordained pastor in the ACTS churches network (but not the usual kind), and I work full-time as a Practical Theologian at Laidlaw College, based in Ōtautahi, Christchurch in Aotearoa New Zealand.

There’s a lot going on, and my head is often full, but I do love it. I’m learning to seek stillness, to live into the reality of weakness, and to embrace the life I am actually living.

By nature I’m more a contemplative; I would have made a great hermit I suspect… if I didn’t believe in community so much. Amidst the noise of life, I crave space, some quiet space, some clean space, some white space. So that’s what this blog is all about. Maybe, hopefully, some of these thoughts will help you, or at least spur you to helpful thoughts of your own. Perhaps in these words you too will find some space, and in that space connect with something beyond yourself. That’s been my experience whenever I pause, seek stillness, and reflect.