What were we like before shame? It’s such a powerful state to find yourself in. So crippling. The combination of feelings of embarrassment, fear and withdrawal prevents any chance of full acceptance and true intimacy in a wider sense. Sometimes it’s something within that causes it – a response to an incident for example. Sometimes […]
Read More He Takes Away The ShameThe human condition is funny. A number of times you read in the Bible, an interaction take place where God, directly or through a messenger tells someone a number of points, all of which ends with a final outcome far greater than the current situation. Yet the listener always misses the point because they’re stuck […]
Read More Missing The Point – Why Sometimes We Should Just Shut UpThey were an upright family in the community. No one could dispute that this was a couple who followed the commandments and carefully considered their conduct. For all their moral purity socially they were still an oddity. They were odd because there was no offspring. At the advanced ages it was written off, because of […]
Read More BarrenDo you know who you’re talking to? This is often the arrogant inquisition given by someone of standing when someone of considerably less credentials seek to question them or prevent access. You might be familiar with the scenario. The question itself in another setting, however is very pertinent. I had not seen him for at […]
Read More Who Do You Say I Am?There is a need to focus on the need for Jesus. I recognise how easy it is to get distracted. The problem of being distracted is that even if you’re doing noble things, they miss the point. There are a lot of noble things going in the world that miss the point. That point chiefly […]
Read More What Matters After The DistractionsI had a bad day. When I get bad days I have different responses. Sometimes I become morose and there’s little that can drag me out of a low. Sometimes I distract myself with loads of other work. There are times I even talk it through with Jesus. As we sit and talk it through […]
Read More Questions and StuffIt doesn’t require someone whose paranoid or an alarmist to be aware of the fact that the world we live in is not always safe. Indeed news bulletins often point out just how unsafe we are whether by reports of burglaries or kidnappings, the viewer is brought into a keen understanding that anything can happen. […]
Read More This Is A Safe PlaceIt’s been a while since I posted a really personal blog piece, which is unusual for a blog that did start out by being personal. Nevertheless here it be a personal post. Over the last two weeks my wife has been out of the home. Her three daughters certainly noticed her absence. The thing about […]
Read More When Someone Is MissingThe single human voice is a powerful instrument. Hearing a gifted voice convey a message on it’s own can be quite the moving experience and you can truly appreciate tone and feeling by it. Yet there can be no doubt that all you have to do is add another voice that accompanies that one, taking […]
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