Free advice AND fix from mechanic today on car air con problem “Drive faster an’ put both windows down”
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Nice mechanic
A bit blind
What if the answer is just so simple that we are the problem for not just accepting it as such?
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Two Wrappings – an unusual Christmas Meditation
Jesus was wrapped and laid down two times – once each at the book-ends of His physical time earthside.
They wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger.
They wrapped Him in linen cloths and laid him in a tomb.
A Tale of Two Martins
The fellas at Shalom House have very varied stories, but two of the same name came to mind this morning. Every Saturday night there is a bring & share meal and one of these dinners found us sitting at a table with the older Martin – and his dad. They sat quietly together but smiled and spoke when friendliness was extended.
Continue reading “A Tale of Two Martins”I heard you crying in my dreams
Part 1 written 15 November 2017
Part 2 written 10 November 2018
Learning
I thank you God for morning
For the freshness that comes
With the dew and the dawn
A new day
With a little distance from yesterday’s hurts
Received and inflicted
Known and unknown
The grey middle
When people hit crisis they’re more likely to reach for help, but when people live just short of crisis they think they’re coping… or that things aren’t so bad… or that they’re better than someone they’re contrasting to (which may even be true)… in crisis things can clarify but the middle is awash with grey.
Continue reading “The grey middle”Pardon me, there’s an eye in my log
I find it very interesting that we can take the hypocrisy of another and use it as the excuse for our own.
VSP 🙂
It’s a gift
If someone is demanding forgiveness they are missing the point.
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Thinking
Sometimes the thing you think you want turns out not to be the thing you want but only the thing you THOUGHT you wanted until you had the thing you thought you wanted and then the thing you had was not the thing you remember thinking you wanted but you couldn’t know it wouldn’t be until you had it but once you did, the thing you thought was only ever a figment that was always an impossibility, so letting go of the thing you thought and looking squarely at the thing that is, and appreciating the reality of that over the endless insatiability of the thing you thought – is what matters.
I think.