I remember from a very early age singing a hymn called Count Your Blessings. Looking back the lyrics are fairly basic and simple – count your blessings, name them one by one, count your many blessings, see what God has done. As ever with the hymns that are sung time and time again from childhood […]
Read More My GratitudeRecently I did the quarterly review of the kind of stuff that’s been published over at the over place. As I mentioned in that report though, whereas that blog is an open access blog with a lot of stuff easily accessible to people interested in the things I am, this here blog, the older blog, […]
Read More State of the Blog Address: Jan-Mar – DMCDSo still on the relationship trip that we’ve been on for a few days now and there’s something marvellous about the relationship we develop with God that moves us beyond piety and pretence to desperation and admitted nakedness. It’s easy to put on masks for the public but in prayer to develop a knowing of […]
Read More I Need You Now – Smokie NorfulDo not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbour who is near than a brother who is far away. (Proverbs 27:10) Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) One of the entries I’m looking […]
Read More MTP27 – Staying Close To ExcelI was walking home one evening recently and as I was walking home I knew I needed to go get some little groceries to tide us over as a family for a little while longer. As I made me way to the place it occurred to me that nothing beats marriage. Now this is not […]
Read More Nothing Beats MarriageApparently bigger is better and if you can get more people on your side, that’s all great. No one is interested in a book that has a small readership. No one wants to watch a programme with a few viewers. No one is putting themselves out for something with low attendance. That’s why I understand […]
Read More A Few Good MenI’ve been outlining where I go from here and did so on the basis that God is one who gives direction and to receive it requires humility and excitement in the knowledge that life isn’t aimless and pure drudgery. In the last entry I also shared some of my hopes about where my writing goes from here […]
Read More Where Do I Go From Here? Beyond TextSo yesterday gave the basis of how important it is to realise that whatever happens in life, it is important not to be presumptuous but likewise to seek guidance and direction in knowing there is somewhere I’m meant to be going. This brings me back to the issue of where I am now, where do I […]
Read More Where Do I Go From Here? TextIt was very good for me to review the trek we’ve got to this point so far. Like Moses in Deuteronomy when you’ve been going a way it is good to recall where you’re coming from because in that you get some clarity in what to beware of and what to embrace as you go forward. […]
Read More Where Do I Go From Here? FoundationsSo where are we now? The first entry of the year gave a good indication that things would be new in a lot of different areas in life. Stepping into this new was not straightforward and some indication of how to get there began with an ongoing awareness of God in all of life which formed the […]
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