When it comes to writing it is a joy and a delight to get ideas and be able to write them out and shape them and reshape them and set them, then come back to them and see how they have changed with time and circumstances. As you may have noted extended thoughts from dmcd […]
Read More Prayer PonderingsSecurity is something highly valued by people. We are not far from the generation that believed in ‘jobs for life’ and marriages that should last forever. There is comfort in knowing something will always be there to help. So it is not the most encouraging thing to hear that the only sure things in life […]
Read More Security in Uncertain TimesBig thanks to Cranmer (His Grace) for putting this clip on his ever thought-provoking blog. It comes from absolutely leftfield for me because I don’t often take the time to consider these issues in great detail, although I come across related issues like these occasionally. I watched the clip and it really got me thinking […]
Read More Just Take A Look At This And Think …Ho hum, the end of another month and indeed the end of the first quarter of the year. Thank God for that. It’s been a fascinating quarter moving from the cold of winter into the inklings of warmer climes and hibernation days over and real action beginning. As you’ve noticed on the blog this month, […]
Read More Living With RegretsThe eye that mocks a father, that scorns an aged mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures. (Proverbs 30:17) Respecting our parents is the first command with promise, outside of commands relating to our relationship with God, this is the first issue that God gives us. Parents […]
Read More MTP30 – Valuing HeritageIt is the end of another week there has been lots of issues worthy of prayer. To list them all and go into detail would require … something I don’t have a lot of – time. So here is a snippet of just some of the issues that I’d appreciate you remembering in your prayers. […]
Read More Prayer Points (WE-110326)What’s this? Another blog entry on the same day for the second day in a row? Is there some sort of escape hatch through which there is greater flexibility for blogging? No. I’m just inspired and so take the opportunity to share while it’s fresh. When I lived in Stoke-on-Trent I came across a gentleman […]
Read More Good Times With DMCDHello and welcome to a very rare treat – a blog entry about me! OK even more rare – an entry about me and me wife!! Those don’t come by too often. In fact with recent family commitments, more than one blog entry a day here is fairly rare. It’s not scheduled to be a […]
Read More Sharing Life With My WifeA person finds joy in giving an apt reply— and how good is a timely word! (Proverbs 15:23) The host asks the question. You know the answer. You just want to tell the contestant, yet you watch as they give the wrong answer. How much more joy would it bring to see someone in distress or confusion and be able to give […]
Read More MTP15 – Is The Right AnswerFools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult. (Proverbs 12:16) One of the easiest ways to wind people up is to offend them. Call them a name, insult their mother, anything to rile them. It is petty, it is childish, it is immature and too often it works in distracting people from […]
Read More MTP12 – I’ll Overlook That
Life With CD 