We were used to the same old rule. Promises of something better. Promises of the much needed changes. Promises to get rid of everything that prevented progress. Promises to support everything the promoted growth. Promises, promises, promises. Hope that these promises would come about. Sincere intentions to bring about the changes. Slow realisation that just […]
Read More Who Rules? All Things NewWhat was it, I’m doing again? What did I say I would do? I just need to check that again. Of course I can check that on my own. After all it’s what I agreed to do. It’s even more helpful to get another perspective on it. Someone who was aware of the journey and […]
Read More Within Reach: Check That“Mum, when can we go home?” “We won’t be going, until I’m good and ready.” I recall these kind of conversations when I look at the world and wonder when will Jesus return. He assures me that He will come soon, but the challenge is will I be good and ready? Will you? (Photo by […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Good and ReadyMercy. This is a quality that people are aware of. This is a quality that people are at least momentarily grateful to be a recipient of. Is it a quality that people are bred to exercise? Mercy is not a natural quality of human beings. The tendency in reaction to a grievance is towards retribution […]
Read More Time for MercyWhen you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. Matthew 6:16 They did it to show others that no one could do religious rituals like they could. They did it to show […]
Read More King Jesus Says – Fast for the Father to SeeCelebrating in relationships widens the smile so that it spreads across wider than one face could ever reach. It’s the smile that does it. The human face is not the sun, but when the smile spreads across the face it is like the sun shining to change any grim situation into something so much better. […]
Read More Celebration in RelationshipsIt might be worth making a note of that. This was the thought that nudged me when someone went out shopping. There was quite a lot I wanted, so I told my dear wife to make a note of it. She duly made the note of the various items I wanted. She went to the […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 13 – The Covenant ScribeWhy? He took me from slavery. He saw what I was addicted to and set me free. He did not set me free for me to go back into slavery. Yet – that has been the tendency. To get caught up with debilitating addictions, persuasive chains, enticing entanglements that leaves me sinking fast. All because […]
Read More Who Rules? The Daily OpportunityJust checking. The people were very active. In fact they had been active for a long time. They were given the orders of what they should be doing. Indeed they were following what their parents had received. And their parents were following what their own parents had been doing in following instructions. This was something […]
Read More Within Reach: Check ThisIt’s fascinating looking back on what happened on this day in history. Events of significance in sport, politics, music, etc. Events that shaped the world in which we live. Good times to learn from the positive and negative. Also, good times to be about the business in the here and now of doing things that […]
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