“Just ask him.” asserted Karen. “I don’t want to.” cowered Lily. It was clear Lily was reluctant to ask him, even though she knew she wanted it a lot. Deborah enquired as to why Abigail didn’t want to ask him. Maybe she didn’t think he had the ability to deliver it. Maybe he would not […]
Read More Just Ask HimIt is one of the most delightful pieces of text committed to manuscript. It’s an outline of what love is and it is the kind of love that transcends what a lot of times we think it is. This passage was read at the wedding of my wife and I and I have also heard […]
Read More About The Three That RemainIt’s an evening in December 2018. I am in the main downstairs room of the home in which I reside. It’s a home located in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, a city towards the upper Midlands of the country between two of the main cities of the country in Manchester and Birmingham. This main room has […]
Read More The Story I Buy Into – All Things NewI mentioned recently about how an incident got the power of the story to my attention in a really distinct way. There were a couple of stories it reminded me of that people buy into. ——— Story One: Glass Half Full Nothing is perfect. Yet look at the tremendous strides we have made over time. […]
Read More The Story You Buy Into – Two StoriesThere was an incident that took place recently which brought the power of story to sharp focus for me. A friend shared how she had been in an email dialogue with a new member of the workplace. The correspondent thought she could get friendly and familiar and call my friend pet names. My friend politely […]
Read More The Story You Buy Into – An IncidentIt’s something that you see in the football, that’s not just about the football. They’re not playing well. It must be the manager. He’s not getting the best out of them. They should be playing a lot better than that. They’re not playing for the manager. They’re not playing well. For the amount that was […]
Read More When They’re Not Playing WellThere are certain phrases that make me chuckle. One of them that I heard being referred to is don’t get ahead of yourself It was something I heard whenever I got excited about something that I was going to do, or something I was going to get that I really wanted. Typically my Mum would […]
Read More Don’t Get Ahead Of YourselfIt was something familiar to be back at her parents’ home. She hadn’t been there for years, but now she was about to get married and she wanted to visit the home one more time. As she visited the garage where all the old stuff was kept, she found an old shoe box. In it […]
Read More Previous, Present, ProspectiveIt makes some scratch their heads in bewilderment. It was clear, as long as he didn’t tell anyone where his strength came from, he’d be fine. He got into a relationship and his girl wanted to know and after he teased her for a while and she wore him down with nagging, he gave up […]
Read More What Did You Expect?There is right. There is wrong. There is good. There is bad. Where’s the life? What makes Him so different for me was that in as much as He can answer questions about right and wrong, His existence was more an issue of answering the question where is the life? The life evidently could not […]
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