I’m not sure if laughter is the best medicine. I’m fairly certain it’s very good. (I write this while still getting over laughing at the movie Airplane – that is a hilarious film.) It’s good because in a moment of the purest laughter free of malice and cynicism there is a release of something positive […]
Read More Laughter – A Very Good MedicineNot long ago I was looking at how we can be programmed into viewing life in a certain way. I saw this picture and it reminded me of that programming that can often be the routine for people’s lives. May not be an office job but it’s some cycle they get themselves into which doesn’t […]
Read More The Hard Lesson To Learn In LifeI got another lesson in the importance of understanding through helping me daughter with her schoolwork. She’s a bright girl is me daughter (note I’m not being specific for reasons that shall emerge in the fullness of time). She’s switched on and is alert and attentive to what’s going on and can grasp concepts very […]
Read More The Importance of UnderstandingI realise as I type this that there is a very real risk that I’ll come across like a pompous buffoon who has something against ‘practical’ people. Yet I write as I’m given utterance and we’ll take it from there. Today’s entry is inspired by a conversation I had with one of the learners in […]
Read More The Cosy Relationship of Theory and PracticeIt is really intriguing how we can let things eat away at us. The fret, the worry, the anxiety, the not knowing, the needing to know, the possibilities, the what if’s, the if only’s. We can become slaves to these and a great deal of time and energy is wasted on things that resolve nothing. […]
Read More Wisdom To Know The DifferenceA brief part of the autobiography reveals the following. From 1996-1999 I attended Essex University and after that I lived in London for six months. In a move that would startle and surprise some (like my Mum and Dad) whilst having everything seemingly go my way, I packed up everything and moved to the middle […]
Read More Learning From Your Mistakes – Ten Years OnI came across this picture today and I was so taken with how aptly it depicts seasons in life. Linking to what I was talking about yesterday in terms of the anxiety attacks, it’s pictures like this that should stimulate us to not waste any time at all, for as it passes so it can […]
Read More Time Passes – It Is InevitableI was sat in one of the WORST CONFERENCE SETTINGS OF ALL TIME. Now when you’re stuck in one of those there is not that much room to move. You must endure … until the very end … until the very bitter end. What helped to endure was to take mental notes of how note […]
Read More Life: It Doesn’t Get Easier – It Does Get More JoyfulJesus lovers. That’s what we are. We love Him. We love Him because He first loved us and has now given us power to really love that we didn’t know was possible, but He’s made it possible. Through this love He allows us to see who God is, who we are and who we can […]
Read More What To Learn From The Old TestamentThis one is a little bit of a cheat. It was actually a film that taught me this lesson, but I learnt it watching the film on TV, so in a way it’s the same thing. The film is of course The Godfather and if I’m being fair you have to watch the first two […]
Read More Things I Learnt From TV: No. 26 – All Business Is Strictly Personal
