There are intangibles that somehow make all the tangible difference. That which allows people to make progress in life in a discernible way of progress, do so by the intangible. When they talk about hard work or smart work they are not necessarily referring to something that can be measured by the sweat of the […]
Read More Faith for the JourneyThere 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 GainsSandra sat at the table with the same people she had sat with on many occasions previously. She knew the drill. The chair would go through the minutes of the last meeting, two people would point out some discrepancies in what was recorded, a brief argument would take place resolved by a vote to accept […]
Read More Seeing Something No One Else SeesIt is no ordinary journey – are you going? Lots of money is saved up over a period of time. Even as they go about their regular day to day life, in the back of their minds they know all of this is leading to something. Something significant. For some, they may only be able […]
Read More Pilgrimage: You’re Going ThereHave you been checking the time? When we were being taught how to tell the time way back at school we had the analogue clock and the digital clock. That digital clock was a twelve-hour clock. It was a little later on that I got into the twenty-four hour clock. I gotta say, I like […]
Read More A Quarter To – A Dryden UpdateWhen will she stop sucking her thumb? Doesn’t she know that she’ll ruin her teeth if she keeps on doing that? Hasn’t she seen the others who have braces because of the incessant thumb-sucking? She should just grow out of it and get on with her life. Tell the same people who criticise her for […]
Read More What If They Took Away The Comfort Blanket?I wonder if you’re familiar with this … “No, move it a little to the left … No, no, no,, now you need to shift it to the right a bit more … Lift it a little … not too much … Oh now it’s slanted … No it’s slanted … diagonal … no, not […]
Read More Adjustment for AlignmentThere is a source for the story I am about to tell but for the life of me I don’t know who the source is, so if it’s a good story it wasn’t mine and if it comes off less than good, blame me. A new pastor at a church was concerned that it was […]
Read More About Change and a PianoThe choice is still up to you. The story is told of the relationship between God and His people. In that story there was a phase when they accepted Him as their King and accepted a number of judges appointed for disputes both internally and when faced with external opposition. The people reached a point, […]
Read More About Changes and ChoicesThere is something that comes along from time to time to help guard against complacency. It’s the rumblings. Allow me to give you an example of it in operation. You’ve got a new job. There’s those initial stages of adapting to the new routines and the new environment. Then there’s understanding how things operate beyond […]
Read More Year Five – When The Rumblings Begin
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