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When I was a teenager working in my main place of employment there was a dude who worked in a different department who utterly scared the whoops out of me within my first week or two. I saw him frequently around the place and others in my department always walked with me through a certain section where he was known to often be. And if I was alone I always walked the loooong way round.
Continue reading “Long range fright”
*Every Friday afternoon I dash about madly trying to get ready for the weekend and trying to get the weeks washing hung before dinner time. On Friday afternoons I find myself thinking on the Jewish women of old, and the Jewish women of today who still live this way – all busily preparing for the Sabbath, getting all the work done by sundown the end of the 6th day, bringing in the 7th, the day of rest till sundown 24 hours later.
Continue reading “Prophetic spotlight”
Been thinking on the term “best friend”.
Why do we accept this idea…
Why do we feel the need to grade each other…
Who introduced the notion…
Why do we give it validity…
Who says there is only one that should be the closEST.
Where does it begin… childhood yes I know really… but where does it end…
Does it ever?
Grown women still dividing the playground.
What’s wrong with just being friends?
Good friends, great friends, friends who love, friends who have more and some who have less time to grow together – but friends.
Why isn’t that beautiful word enough on its own?
Someone once said to me that hope can be very dangerous, and Proverbs says “Hope deferred makes the heart sick” but today I am grateful that hope can spring up like magically appearing stepping stones that show you the way to go within a sea of “agggggghhhhh!”…
“Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from Him.”
The first time I paid any attention to the following proverb was in the context of parenting… “The first to state his case seems right, until his opponent begins to cross-examine him”.
You know the drill, you question your child about something that’s just happened and you go marching off to nab the other child – the guilty one. But then the one deemed guilty objects to their impending fate and you start to doubt that you’d heard all the facts previously.
Continue reading “All the facts. Maybe.”
1. Leave everything possible to the last minute.
2. Make sure that several deadlines collide at once for that extra pressured feeling of urgency.
3. Lose all sense of special awareness so that you will bash into things, drop heavy items on your toes and smash at least one lampshade. This will aid your goals tenfold.
Continue reading “How to run late and cheese people off”
Reading the story of Gideon this morning…
If I said something to a person and their reply was a contradiction beginning with the words “pardon me but” – I think I would take that as sarcasm. Or cheekiness.
Continue reading “Gideon the cheeky”
I disagree with Edward De Bono who says God cannot have a sense of humour since humour is based on surprise. While surprise is a factor, so is delight, and so it’s a good thing I’m convinced God does indeed have a sense of humour or I’d be wriggling in at the irreverence of how Rod says grace from time to time.
Continue reading “Mr Super-Thinker, I disagree with you”
“Her arms are strong for her tasks” is the proverb that usually comes to mind when I bring in arm loads of shopping. Tonight I find myself HANDWASHING the uniforms and load that Didn’t wash in the machine which is not spinning and it’s relevant again.
Continue reading “Proverbs 31 thoughts”
“No sympathy”
These were the strange words an older friend and mentor said to me in a set of unusual circumstances.
Driving our then 6 kids to school one winter morning we passed a teenage boy walking down Toodyay Rd in a most bedraggled fashion. Freezing and pouring. An area where there are no houses for miles in any direction.
Continue reading “The hitch-hiker who wasn’t.”