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Have you ever had the experience of having to explain the obvious to someone who just can’t/wont see it? I’ve had two in recent weeks. Both head-bangers. The first was explaining something to someone in writing- that they and I both had copies of – yet refused to concede that I’d done so. Crazy making.
Continue reading “Blind or open eyes?”
Mustard is not an expensive condiment so its harvest yield must be quite plentiful.
When I turned 12, a school friend gave me a little necklace – a glass heart with a single mustard seed in it . I loved it and wore it so much the glass got so scratched you could barely make out the seed inside anymore. (See Goft shop/store) If I’d never had that necklace, I don’t suppose I’d have wondered on the verses about mustard seeds as much as I have – but I have always really just honed in on the size of the seed.
Continue reading “Unless a seed”
*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”
One particular time a few years back when I was major-league stressed about something, I was driving along a road close to home thinking over and over “I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to do” – when I came upon a traffic jam where I could neither see the problem nor where I needed to go.
My cry of “I don’t know what to do” was immediately applied to the road situation where visibility was so bad.
This turned out to be one of those amazing moments when God spoke so clearly through the circumstance at hand to show me something much bigger and which I will never forget. I felt the words “the way will become clear” somewhere deep inside and as I inched forward through a messy convergence of truck and traffic and narrow road and road works, bit by bit I could see what I needed to do next.
So many times in life we are faced with new, difficult, stressy things that if we wait, and watch, and follow the way marked out bit by bit, we’ll get to the other side of the thing and see we did Ok. And more importantly, that we were Helped.