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Picture someone you like/love/want to help.
You see worth and value in them.
You want to do what you can.
Then you look down and notice their feet are stuck in a sticky black substance but you still see their worth (more than the sludge) and you know you’ve got ‘stuff’ too so you’re undaunted.
Continue reading “Sludge”
Sometimes people put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4 – but what they don’t realise is the digits they added were not the correct ones in play. If you need to add 2 bananas to 2 bananas because you see 2 bananas and 2 bananas on your kitchen bench – that is great. But if you are analysing someone elses life and assume what you see is a 2 and what you’ve read or heard causes that problem is a 2 you likely don’t know that your equation is a full size blackboard covered in chalk short of accurate information.
No this is not about someone passing judgement on me and mine – but I can say it because I’ve experienced the pain of that. And I’ve done it. And am very ashamed.
We all just need to stop it.
This has been a VSP 🙂
Have you ever made a vow? I’m not talking wedding vows, or “I solemnly declare to tell the truth” type vows – I’m speaking of inner vows.
Continue reading “Unconscious vows”
The woman described in Proverbs 31 brings anything and everything between motivation and interest to sighs and groans of loathing. This will depend on the age and season of the woman and her experience of marriage and family – but mainly it will depend on the way she has perceived the passage to have been taught. This little offering of mine is to share some thoughts as I see the chapter in question…
Continue reading ““That” woman!”
“It’s all about love isn’t it… it’s about learning how to love well.”
“We think love is going to be easy – and it is easy – but it’s only easy when it’s easy…”
These were remarks made in a HS discussion group today.
• Loving well won’t always be easy.
• Loving well won’t always be felt as such.
• Loving well involves truth and light and application toward the future.
Interested in others thoughts – what else do you see about what it is to ‘love well’?
Not by any particular design of my own, I’ve happened to read the story of the man possessed by a legion of demons (in Luke 8) several times in the last few weeks. The demons recognised Jesus, understood his authority – and were terrified.
Continue reading “Bringer of Light”
Have you ever noticed a difference between night-time thoughts and daytime thoughts? By ‘night-time thoughts’, I specifically mean the ones that roll around in your head when you’d rather be asleep? I usually sleep like a slab of concrete. Head down – BAM – that’s it till Rod turns on the shower in the morning but sometimes… no.
Continue reading “Sleepless nights”
Everything we believe can have all these questions as layered factors within our systems.
The first thing we hear cuts the deepest track. Like a dribble of hot water on the surface of a jelly. All other returns to the channel that is pre-cut. Which is fine if the pre-cut channel is right, and not so fine if it is faulty.
Continue reading “That thing you believe”
Sometimes I wish Jesus had said more. Those red lettered words in the Bible really don’t seem to take up that much space. But I suppose that God figured it was enough, and in combination with it being a Living word and the help of the Holy Spirit it really is enough. (But I still often wish there was more 🤔)
Continue reading “Knowing who to listen to”
We each all see through our own sets of filters.
If a picture of a man and a boy fishing on a jetty are shown to a child from a reasonably functioning family – this child might say “That’s a kid and his Dad fishing”, another child with an abusive or absent father might just say “That’s a kid and a grown up fishing”.
Continue reading “Filters”