Packed Lunch for the Journey

What’s in the packed lunch today? Typically, back in the day, it was sandwiches, fruit, a packet of crisps, a sweet something of some sort – usually a chocolate bar and a drink. That used to be my favourite packed lunch. I didn’t get that all the time. There were certainly times where my Mum […]

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Set Up For The Journey

The first day going to school on his own was quite something. The night before his Mum checked to see if he had remembered to lay out everything he would wear. She also checked to see if he had remembered to get his bag packed properly. She also checked to see if he had remembered […]

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Hope for the Journey

Maybe things will be better next time. It’s a thought I hear from people in various situations in life. The girl thinks that maybe the next relationship will turn out better. The man thinks that maybe the next job will turn out better. The child thinks that maybe the next birthday will turn out better. […]

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Faith for the Journey

There are intangibles that somehow make all the tangible difference. That which allows people to make progress in life in a discernible way of progress, do so by the intangible. When they talk about hard work or smart work they are not necessarily referring to something that can be measured by the sweat of the […]

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Firsthand Insight

He said. She said. We want to hear someone say what he said so that we know. It is not always possible to get it straight from the source and when that is not possible, the nearest we can get is as good as anything. Yet some folks really rely on the secondhand sources. To […]

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Repentance and Responsibility

It’s about time you owned that. Stop deflecting. Stop blaming others for the situation. Stop putting it down to apparent factors beyond control as though you have successfully deluded yourself into thinking there was nothing you could do. Stop that. Look at where it’s got you and consider carefully how it has not brought you […]

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There’s A Call For You

There are plenty of warnings against presumption. There was a study I was doing with someone on the term ‘complacency’ and there’s a lot of presumption to be seen in what leads to that. People get so comfortable in what they believe they know and what position they think they’re in and before they know […]

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He Does All Things Well?

They messed up her pay and they weren’t going to sort it out. For all the fuss she was making about it, she wasn’t getting anywhere. How can you tell her that He does all things well? One of his daughters was raped. One of his sons killed another of his sons and then spent […]

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Don’t Get Ahead Of Yourself

There 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 […]

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