I like watching movies. I like the issues they raise and the application to every day life. My beloved wife and I managed to grab some opportune moments to watch The Count of Monte Cristo. Based on a novel surrounding a man who was bitterly betrayed and escaped to wreak revenge on those who caused […]
Read More Power Of EmotionsThis often worked on me girls, sometimes when I’ve said something I regret, I wish it worked for me! Of course I wouldn’t dare suggest others should us it before they blog/preach/moan/annoy/irritate/aggravate/misinform/deceive/lie or anything of that nature. I wouldn’t suggest that at all. Would I. (HT: The Meta Picture) For His Name’s Sake Shalom dmcd
Read More Keep It ShutI 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 DifferenceI consider what people say and it’s interesting how it matches up to their lifestyles. Take John Lennon’s Imagine, for example. He invites us to imagine scenarios that appear to depict his concept of the ideal. Among other things he asks us to imagine there’s no possessions, despite the fact that he would be singing […]
Read More Words Of Wisdom From Interesting SourcesKnowledge is power. I really believe that. Of course, the problem with that concept is that it doesn’t really explain much. For to have power – what does that mean? How is power meant to be exercised? That is why, slowly but surely, I am learning that the pursuit of knowledge in itself is a […]
Read More OverloadBefore I paid attention to Proverbs and long before anyone told me about wisdom, I was given some valuable life lessons by the words of my parents. Particularly my mother. My Dad was not verbose and so mastered the model of speaking few words with great wisdom and authority. So it was my mother who […]
Read More Wisdom From Home: Show Off Brings DisgraceCharm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. (Proverbs 31:30) The purpose of Proverbs is for readers to recognise what it takes to be and speak wise and thus aspire to wisdom above everything. Throughout the book it has not been an exercise of the head, but a commitment on […]
Read More MTP31 – The Foundation of WisdomThe 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 HeritageMany seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the LORD that one gets justice. (Proverbs 29:26) It is right and proper to acknowledge those over us and wisdom does not suggest we seek to take matters into our own hands for our own sense of justice which is often thinly disguised vengeance. Yet […]
Read More MTP29 – Where Real Justice Comes From
