My friend Ray introduced me to this better way of looking at the concept of hope. Previously the term was more like a wish you really wanted to happen. The sort of thing you crossed your fingers for, but held a degree of knowledge that it may not happen. It was a bit like optimism […]
Read More December Thanks #09: HopeSeeing the shoots of life in plants is something promising. Though I am not a gardener, I knocked around with my Dad enough in his allotment to see the stages of growth from planting to fruition. Those shoots would always be a sign that I saw favourably. October was a month where on careful viewing […]
Read More YIR15 – 10 – Shoots of HopeOK from the get go I am not one of those that subscribe to the view that life would be boring if we didn’t have failure, or mistakes or missteps. I am looking forward to perfection. I long for it. I have seen and experienced the consequences of failing. The hurt and devastation caused by […]
Read More Thank God for … FailureIssues and hassles in life can be seen to choke the hope out of people. Bad stuff happens and keeps happening. Bad people seem to get away with badness and some decent folks appear to be struggling and facing hardships. Those who you expect to relieve the pressure only appear to pile more on. Organisations […]
Read More Can I Cope?When I was a lot younger, I used to hear a lot that to be a hypocrite was one of the worst things ever to be called. Let’s be clear. By hypocrite the thinking is usually of someone who presents one face and then in another setting presents a different face, maybe the opposite. So […]
Read More HypocritePerseverance. That word has been bothering me for the last week or so. It’s been bothering me, because I’ve come across it quite a number of times in studying scripture. The latest scripture was in 2 Peter 1:6, but to put in context here it is in verses 5-8. For this very reason, make every […]
Read More What Keeps Me Going – Hope In JesusI dedicate this particular post to a man called Simon Lovatt. It is two years now since I left North Staffs YMCA, in that time it seems like I’ve crammed in quite a lot – enough to forget some other things. Yet I remember Simon who worked at the YMCA. He was a man for […]
Read More Getting Our Hopes UpI 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 BridgeI heard this song when I was growing up and as with many songs of those childhood days, I’d hear them, like them, not know who did them and have them lurk in the background for years. Of course then I get all grown up and I know me John P Kee, Kirk Franklin, Vanessa […]
Read More DMCD Songs – I’m Goin’ Up YonderIt’s as though there is a phase where there’s an on-rush of material that I’m fascinated about and eager to post and there’s just not enough time in the day to do it. This is not the first time I’ve come across the subject of death – although I hardly have a morbid obsession over […]
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