It’s not that you deliberately set out to mess it up. After all it is a wonderful opportunity. In those initial stages there was great excitement and a genuine eagerness to make the most of the opportunity. Then things happen. As things happen they challenge the degree of commitment to the opportunity. Things don’t just […]
Read More If You Take It SeriouslyThere is a lot to be said about love. There is a lot to be said and so it’s no surprise that a lot has been said. Also unsurprisingly, although a lot has been said not all that’s been said has done the topic any good. So I don’t approach this subject glibly or lightly. […]
Read More Even If … Even When …They interrupt from time to time asking about what’s going to happen and why what’s happening now is happening. They pester and ponder investing lots of time into matters that are not worth their energy. Like all good stories it is much better to go through the story until its conclusion. You gotta let the […]
Read More Worth Reading To The EndWhen I was younger than I am now, I used to style off being competitive. There were those sporty types who had to win everything and made sure others knew about it both while they were playing and when they won. I wasn’t into that. That wasn’t my style. I like winning for sure, but […]
Read More What Winning Looks LikeWhat makes the story exciting is how when you read it, the action, movement, drama and conversation feels alive and engaging. The problem often comes when we read things the wrong way and instead of getting energised by the life of the story, we get bogged down with the minutiae and invert elements, pervert elements […]
Read More By the Book and By the LifeRecently I shared about faith in the system. Some suggested that I sounded somewhat sceptical and mistrusting of those institutions and elements that make up the system in which we live. There were even concerns that I might want to support efforts that goes against the system that, in all honesty, contributed to making me […]
Read More Faith in Something DifferentIn real everyday life, the existence of right and wrong is ever before us. There’s the simple and straightforward – a young man aggressively pushes past a fragile elderly lady to get to the front of a queue to purchase something. The lady is physically hurt and there are concerns about her. The young man […]
Read More There Is Right and Wrong Isn’t There?Recently I was thinking about what it is to live the Spirit-filled life. I had attended a church service, which, in my view, had a lot of good things were performance was concerned – acoustics, stagecraft, etc, but in terms of the human environment it seemed to be a little lacking. The service was somewhat […]
Read More What Did He Show You Today?Disorientation. Wonderful word. Use it in a conversation some time. The way you use it is when someone is evidently in a state where they don’t have their bearings, not quite in a place of knowing there they are going they are in a state of disorientation. Being lost as an experience brings about a […]
Read More Lost and SentWhatever the tradition, there is something really significant about the importance of remembering. The memory is bombarded with every new experience and event in life. Certain patterns can get the brain slowly being shaped by the immediate to such a degree that it can lose touch with key points that establishes the identity. That can […]
Read More Remember: The Past for the Present
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