The contrasts in this Psalm just won’t leave me alone. The imagery is so stark. The way of the blessed man and the way he achieves it in comparison to the way that opposes it. Meditating on the word day and night was something my youngest daughter heard and asked me about. She’s 6 years […]
Read More Psalm 1 – Two WaysDecember is usually a month of reflection. There was a great sense of that in looking back on the journey through the year. The decision to spend thirty days of Thanksgiving was also a great way to look back at the great things God has done. Yet December was lot more about the set up […]
Read More YIR16 – 12 – BeginningI will not forget what God has done for me and my family in 2016. He has definitely exceeded my expectations in ways I truly never even contemplated before. On this basis I am grateful for the memories of His faithfulness and goodness and look forward to discovering more of His greatness to those that […]
Read More December Thanks #29: MemoriesNovember was a great month, but not primarily because it was my birthday. In fact my birthday was one of the most innocuous and forgettable birthdays of my life. What was of far greater interest was the theme on the team. I was inspired to explore again how important team is to accomplishing goals. For […]
Read More YIR16 – 11 – That Team Thing2016 has been another year of my growing appreciation for WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter, WordPress and other means of electronic communication. They have been means by which I have been a recipient of the word and been a conveyor of the word. The word has come in greatly through those means. It has been a reminder […]
Read More December Thanks #28: CommunicationIt is a privilege to write. It’s a privilege to write about the things you love. I love the privilege of being able to write about a lot of the things I love. Sure there’s faith and that informs a lot of what I write on this blog. There is somewhere else I do blogging, […]
Read More YIR16 – 10 – Celebrating Among FriendsA great friend of mine visited us recently. She lives a way away from us but was visiting the area and blessed us with her company for a few hours. As we often do when we haven’t seen each other in a while, we got to talking on a range of topics. Then we dropped […]
Read More December Thanks #27: DeborahSeptember was certainly a month dominated by fruit. Not as though I went on a fruit fast, but I might as well have done that for the focus I had on the matter. That degree of looking at the issue of fruit proved to be something that I benefited greatly from because it got me […]
Read More YIR16 – 09 – By Their FruitIt would have been easy to blow up and make a big deal of it. I could have sulked for a number of days and plotted my revenge. I could have resorted to refusing to engage properly because of the significant slight that I suffered. I knew better, though. I knew better not because I […]
Read More December Thanks #26: MentorsAsk and it shall be given. A very simple perspective Jesus encourages in the relationship between us as children to our Father. A simple principle that is easily forgotten when we don’t get what we want or when we have been brought up to do all the getting ourselves. The month of August brought me […]
Read More YIR16 – 08 – Being Intentional
