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About Hilda Vaughan

A priest in the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands doing what God requires: living justly with lovingkindness and mercy, walking humbly with God and all God's creatures The views expressed here are mine alone and is independent of and not associated with the Diocese.

We don’t have to live a lie: Embrace our reality

Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. Galatians 6:7 So many of us live a lie and we fool ourselves about our reality. We believe we can fool God too.  … Continue reading

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Redemption in Juneteenth and World Refugee Day

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. (Genesis 3:15) Yesterday was the celebration of Juneteenth and today is observed as World … Continue reading

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Planted by God for God

“What shall we say the kingdom of God is like…?   It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.  Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such … Continue reading

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Being our own Best Person

For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves. All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride. Galatians 6:3-4 All must test their work and … Continue reading

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Experiencing the Fruit of the Spirit and Works of the Flesh: It’s not one or the other

Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh; for these are opposed to … Continue reading

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Rural Women are Virtuous

I am not certain how many of us gathered here, know that I am a trained agriculturist, and a former vice president of the Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers. I am an asphalt farmer, but I love country, I … Continue reading

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An Authentic Person

Hi Blog It has been a long time since I have posted. But I have been meaning to write for the last 2 weeks ago. I officiated at a funeral and had another conversion of how real God is and … Continue reading

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The Sermon I should have preached

Our task has always been and more so now to work at fixing our problems making sacrifices and providing our citizens with the ability to live their best lives “so that Jamaica may under God increase in beauty, fellowship and prosperity” and advance the whole human race.   Continue reading

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A Birthday Sermon

Today is the commemoration of Jesus going to prepare a place for us, of Jesus leaving his disciples to be with God, to be in a better place to set us and our affairs of redemption and salvation right . … Continue reading

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