In the issues of life, I’m finding more and more that my old get outs of ‘it’s not important’ or ‘I don’t really care’ are being challenged. The problem is that often issues are important and I do care but I can’t afford to get involved, entangled, trapped. The revelation that works for me is [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 30th, 2010 | No Comments »
It seems strange and sobering to me that you are always there
always ready and waiting
even when I go off on one of my roamings without you
when I get stewed up and a bit screwed up
throw away some life here and there
as soon as I turn to you
there you are ready to give life to me [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 28th, 2010 | No Comments »
I’m looking ahead at my finances, my need for a car, my future.
The more I consider these things the more I get pulled into them and out of my life for today.
You are giving me life today, here and now.
I must fill up on life today.
My plans for the future are important but I can’t [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 27th, 2010 | No Comments »
have you ever suspected this may be happening to you
every day someone is exploiting the issues we experience
the good and bad issues
and making ill of them
to wear us down and defeat us
as I find ways to relate to God
so he takes me beyond the reach of the exploiter
and I survive the bad stuff
and fully enjoy [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
every time I just react to the issues around me I am just re-enforcing the fact that I am subject to them, I am not free. I am in their pay, a downward spiral. To be pro-active sounds good but it’s just more of me again and although sometimes I’m good, I’m not good enough. [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 20th, 2010 | No Comments »
how long would I allow myself to be pushed or pulled along by the issues of my life. Moment by moment day by day, something always pulling me in or pushing me around. Is my lot to be enticed or intimidated in this way. Apparently not. A new kind of life begins at the places [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
The world I live in is fallen and broken. Yet there are areas of my life I expect no broken-ness or fallen-ness. I anticipate no disfunctionality in myself or in those around me and yet we are all fallen and broken in some way. I am knocked down by it and project the fears forwards [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
Over the years I’ve had enough of what I can pull off for my own life and for those around me. I’m become more involved in what God can create in my life and through my life as I develop the relationship so that I can respond to him in the moment by moment isues [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 13th, 2010 | No Comments »
I’m realising these days that wisdom is not so much being able to tell people what you’ve learned, but being able to encourage them to go through the learning experiences themselves and be shaped by you Oh God and your wisdom. Of course then the fame is yours and not mine.
‘The Father let his younger [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 10th, 2010 | No Comments »
Are you oh God trying to tell me something
or trying to get me to do something
or are you drawing me into the mystery
of learning how to live in your life
your life oh God replaces the coasting or the manic
with a leisurely emersion in my salvation
and the salvation of those around me
there is a constancy of [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 1st, 2010 | No Comments »