My youngest child is not quite 18 months. She can walk and she can climb. (Can she ever climb!) She is not quite coherent in talking, but she can give indication noises and can utter some words. One of those words is ‘Dad’. I have two other daughters who are able to say that word […]
Read More DadI grew up in a good Christian home. Two loving parents who did their best by their children and three children who did their best to get the worst out of each other, but behind which there was a bond and an affection that was really realised when we all left the family home and […]
Read More Across The BridgeThe other day I had a phone conversation with my Dad. Usually telephone conversations with my Dad are known for their brevity. My Dad isn’t given to much speech, and to be honest, hard though it may be to believe, neither am I. If I don’t have to talk, I won’t. I enjoy the quiet […]
Read More Why Worry – Part OneMy youngest daughter Zoë is 8 months old and as long as she is fed and changed at the appropriate times she is the very picture of contentment. She is not as sophisticated as her sisters who are now aware of the ‘treats’ economy and are already developing their own agenda for what they want […]
Read More ContentmentYou know certain songs remind you of certain places and certain times and certain people. I hear this song and I think of Wellingborough, I think of my younger teen years and I think of my Dad. Back in the day I couldn’t care less about praying. Especially prayer meetings, they were good times to […]
Read More Sweet Hour of PrayerThis may come as a shock and a surprise to you, but I can often be found thinking about things. (Yeah, there you go for the shock of the day – take your time in recovering from that.) As in contemplating them and pondering and wondering. For example today I was minding my own business […]
Read More OriginsQuite a bit to say in the blog at this time, but what I want to start off with is a big thank you to God. On the one hand, I really did miss regular blogging and internet activity and me own laptop. I liked the level of regularity I’d built up over the months […]
Read More To My DadFinally we complete the mini-series that I’ve been writing about the family and my developing understanding of the this crucial foundation of society. It would be useful to summarise how I came to this point with a couple of dating scenarios. In January 1990 I was a 12 year old boy whose concept of family […]
Read More Consider Yourself One Of The Family – Where I Am NowRecently I was writing about the kind of environment conducive to genuine praise and genuine community engagement in the light of the ‘spiritual covering’ practice. Read it for yourself by clicking for part one and part two. One aspect of the argument was about how we’re more likely to be ourselves when we’re at home. […]
Read More Consider Yourself … A PreambleThe build up continues to the revealing of the person who has been dominating my thoughts of late and in line with what I recently wrote about the quality of a man, I want to follow that up by looking at another feature that struck whilst considering this particular character and putting that in the light […]
Read More Quality of the Man – Consistency
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