Allow to give a little glimpse into some of what motivates what I write about. There can be something in my mind that’s worth writing about. I’ll give it a miss for the time being and then something else will crop up that insists that what needed to be written about before, needs to be […]
Read More About Searching For Something That’s Not As Far As You ThinkYou can do without it. You don’t need it. In my childhood I loved watching TV. I could watch it for hours at a time. When it was the summer holidays I thought I could wake up and just watch telly all day long. On reflection there wasn’t that much on worth watching. Even these […]
Read More Do You Really Need It?The loss of a loved one is like a light going out in the world. For me there is only the comfort that there is a light that can never be extinguished or overcome. It is the the hope from that light, that keeps things shining when times get bleak and grim. Recently I heard […]
Read More Light Off, Light OnFrom time to time I come across something that in the light of it, I am desirous to live in line with it. There were three episodes that made me perk up and take notice of Him again. Familiar episodes, to a degree, but always worth watching again. In the first episode, four guys ripped […]
Read More Something About Meeting Real NeedsWhat’s the point? Discouragement. They don’t turn up like they used to. The numbers are dwindling. The effort was dismal. The performance was dreadful. Maybe I’m not effective anymore. The enthusiasm is just not there anymore and perhaps I’m the one who is stopping things progressing, Maybe I don’t belong here anymore and it’s time […]
Read More Something About Start Again And Keep GoingWhen you look back, you can see the chapters. Then there’s a more conscious sense that a chapter is coming to an end. It doesn’t always end how you want to, but there is a sense in which that chapter has come to a close. If it was a particularly tough time, then the end […]
Read More Something About A New ChapterDo not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:2) My experience of that period of my life was not so much about being a rebel to my parents. I […]
Read More Acceptable To Who?I remember holding on tightly. Not that it hurt him particularly, because this five year-old’s grip on the man’s hand was hardly going to leave a massive impression. I gripped it though. I gripped it for all it was worth, because it was a sign of safety. It was a sign that all was well […]
Read More Holding OnThere is an approach to life that is based on that which can be measured. How long? How much? What time? Which place? The quantifiables in life. You know where you stand when it can be quantified. Things like your goals in life should be quantifiable. Yet, you watch certain things in life take place […]
Read More Cannot Be MeasuredThere was no question with God as there was for the agonising Hamlet. There was the call to be. As the culmination of His creation reflecting Him in all He was. His first call to humanity was to be fruitful. Being fruitful in a very real way was continuing to be who He created humanity […]
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