“It will come.” “How do you know it will come?” “Well I was assured that it will come.” “How do you know you can trust that assurance?” “I’ve been able to trust it before. It has never let me down.” “Just because it hasn’t before, how do you know it won’t now? There’s a first […]
Read More Living in Expectation: An Ongoing ConversationThey 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 […]
Read More He Does All Things Well?“That’s not how the story goes, Daddy. Tell them what happened. Tell them the story for real, Daddy.” It was one of those occasions where I couldn’t quite muster up the energy to go through the situation as I had done on umpteen occasions previously. I had delivered a half-hearted and somewhat pathetic recounting of […]
Read More As The Story Goes …It’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 IncidentYou ever hear a piece of music and get a taste of life? My daughters and I were listening to a piece of classical music and sharing what we heard in it. The thins we shared were about what life is like – happy moments remembering the good things that have happened. Within that there […]
Read More Hear the Life in the MusicThere were five of us in the household. Dad, Mum, my older sister, my younger brother and I. Looking back, the upbringing was fairly simple. My Dad wasn’t given to extravagances of any kind and wasn’t one to waste money at all. My Mum would be the one more likely to look at the occasional […]
Read More Small GainsAccording to the one earthly being I love above all others, I can sometimes use fifteen words to explain something that she might need in five. She prefers the five. She was overjoyed, then, when we sat around a table with some good friends sharing life together. One of our friends shared something very simple […]
Read More Converse, Connect, Understand & ActIt 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 […]
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