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To read at Easter

I wrote this little series of posts over the Easter weekend of 2014. I would go to my computer around the times significant events took place on the days of crucifixtion-death-resurrection, read the Scriptures, try to immerse myself in them and this is what I posted at intervals.

17 April 2014

“Moonlight streamed through the olive trees and though He asked us to watch with Him – we fell asleep. In years to come we agonised together over so many failings, the fact we slept, just one. Excuses and justifications – full bellies and wine, full days and fear – all true, but excuses. We slept though He asked us to wait. We slept though he asked us to watch. We slept though He asked us to pray. We slept while He sweat drops of blood on the ground. How could we? How could we!……….. We did”
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Exodus 12:42 Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.

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Law vs Freedom – do not withold yourselves!

Marriage-purity-sex-family are all topics close to my heart and ones on which I’ve spent much time so when I read the Scriptures I’m always on the lookout for deeper understandings on these topics. I’ve read way too many books on these topics and in amongst them I have read a number of Christian teachers say that a wife should never withhold herself from sex and I have seen women damaged and part-way to deranged from their efforts to live out such teaching.

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How we are heard

Perspectives and misunderstandings are fascinating. I used to say regularly at bedtime to one of our boys when they were little “I love you to bits”. One night he looked so sad so I paused at his door and he said “Mummy, why do you only love me two bits?” It’s not just what we say, it’s how we get heard, and how we get heard depends only partially on what we say.

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Prophetic spotlight

*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.

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All the facts. Maybe.

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.

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