One of the amazing gifts that God gave mankind was the ability to imagine, to dream, to picture things that are not immediately present, either from the past or by using information from the past to imagine future possibilities. Because this is the sort of gift that can get us into trouble, we as Christians […]
Today the word that I think that the Lord would have us ruminate on is ‘Mercy’. So I looked up the Oxford Dictionary definition and was blown away. It said, Mercy, n. Compassion shown by one to another who is in his power and has no claim to kindness. then by way of explanation was […]
In our last blog, we looked at the power of our thanksgiving to ‘seed’ the rain of blessing from heaven, in the same way that the tiny spores from the fungus rise up on the breeze and turn water vapour into drops of rain. The power of that picture stays with me, especially since the […]
We watched a nature program yesterday in which we were shown how an amazing, but unseen, event takes place in the rainforest, that causes the torrential rain to fall. We were shown, in this program, how the apparently insignificant fungus, which lives on, or sometimes unseen below the forest floor, is actually the agent that […]
One of the passages of scripture that I knew long before I was a Christian was ‘the Magnificat’. Mary’s song of praise to the Lord, which she spoke out after Elizabeth had prophetically confirmed the Angel ‘s message to her, that she would have a baby and that He would be the long awaited Messiah. […]
Apart from rising above the challenges that life throws up and finding God’s Peace in the ‘storms’ of life, waiting on the Lord, or ‘entwining our heart’ with His, Isaiah 40:31, brings another blessing too. As we wait on Him and ‘rise up on eagles wings’ we begin to see things more clearly from God’s […]
Many of our cards over Christmas spoke of ‘Peace’, and quite rightly so because we were celebrating the coming of Jesus the ‘Prince of Peace’ Isaiah 9:6. We genuinely wanted to bless our friends and family, Christian and non Christian, with ‘Peace’. The problem is that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, came into a very […]
One of the difficulties of life is the fact that it is not a rehearsal. The fact is that, as we go through life, we are learning on the job and doing so many things for the first time and so, as we go, we make many mistakes. We are potentially learning and growing all […]
In a recent conversation with a friend, who was feeling a little ‘stuck’ in life and in her faith, I made a suggestion that I thought would help her to move forward. Her reply was, ”That means taking a risk”. To which I said, “Yes it does”. I then I found myself thinking about Elijah, […]
It occurred to me (after writing yesterday’s blog) that sometimes it is hard to ‘give’ to others when we are actually carrying a lot of stuff ourselves. That is to say that, when we are carrying heavy burdens that weigh us down and preoccupy us, it is sometimes hard to notice those opportunities to ‘give’ […]