So much for the hiatus, eh? There were technical difficulties, honest. Me laptop was playing something silly, but I guess what happened was that I just got used to accessing the little netbook of me wife and got me fingers around how small it is. Indeed as the consolation of the beggar and pauper suggests, this is better than nothing.
Of course I’m looking forward to me own laptop being up and running as soon as possible, because getting used to a different keyboard set-up can be a chore, but ho hum, such is life and then you die, as my Dad would put it.
Recently over at the other place, whilst dealing with the hiatus, I took the time to talk about some things I was reading online, and it is surprising that I don’t write about the articles I read online that have a bearing on me thinking and that kind of thing. I still get a chance to catch up on me ol’ Google Reader, especially thanks to the regular access online via me wife’s netbook and there are some real beauties that come my way from time to time. For example …
The latest report on the amount possibly overspent or fraudulently spent on benefits. That’s a frightening amount of money and although in the larger scale of economic figures and that lot it might be a drop in the ocean, I’d have thought you could be doing quite a bit if you weren’t making that level of mistakes about benefits. How ironic that something that is meant to be of benefit to you, isn’t. I wonder if the expected welfare reforms will address those issues and we’ll see a tangible difference?
Dan has some hard things to say about why it appears as though the devil is winning. It’s worth reading the article twice, once to get the gist of it, and the second time to challenge yourself as to whether you understand the nature of the charge he is making against people who should really believe in the power of prayer. What do I think? I think Dan has a lot to challenge believers on who can be complacent in their prayer lives. There could be the danger, however, of us believing that everything only happens by prayer and I’m not convinced that this is the way to view prayer. Still more than worth taking on board and asking God for a prayerful life.
Final example of decent material I come across from time to time comes from the incomparable Prodigal Jon and his Stuff Christians Like. Humour in Christian circles can goo to extremes that no longer make it Christian, but I love Jon’s style and this post on preaching from the iPad is a good case in point to prove it. Reading it makes me seem almost back in the prehistoric era still treasuring me little laptop as opposed to joining the Apple generation. Still, that won’t get me to join the Apple generation as I remain content with me little laptop … when it works!
Perhaps as things settle down and I get a pattern going in me new life here, I can carve time out to review some of the quality material I’m reading online on a more regular basis. There is so much brilliant stuff out there if you’re just diligent enough to look!
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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