Through my daily reflective journal (see earlier blog for download sheet for your journal) I have noticed a pattern that repeats itself and causes wreckage in a life that I want to be built up.
I notice that sometimes my behaviour is poor especially when I’m provoked or tired. I can cause offence and be abusive [...]
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Someone commited an offence against me. The first thing I do is step back which is better than the old days when I used to retaliate. The second thing I do is to journal the offence, scribble a short note of it in my reflective journal. So far so good.
I then make a mistake I’ve [...]
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Once I’ve completed 6 days of journalling I go back and read them and summarise on the seventh day. Often I miss days but that’s ok. The reading of my 6 day journal reveals that I have been on an unknown journey with an un-noticed guide. God has found me again because I have let [...]
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The problem with journalling is that it reveals what’s really going on in my head. The more I journal the more honest I become and the more I realise the rediculous thoughts that pass through my mind. When these thoughts go un-noticed they build up and weigh against me changing my mood and behaviour. But [...]
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Every day the story unfolds of what my experiences reveal about myself and what God is revealing to me about his kind of life for me. I use the attached sheet. In the early days of doing this it’s hard to see what my daily experiences are revealing about me and even harder to see [...]
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Biographies are very popular. People writing the story of their lives seems to attract attention. The most helpful biography for you though is the story of your life.
I have found that noting daily what my experiences are revealing to me about myself, is a very settling and inspiring thing. Each day I note what experiences [...]
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I talk to someone all the time who not only always listens but is interested ….. it’s great therapy. I find that talking things out in my head is a circular experience that goes round and round and never gets anywhere. The person I relate to is always there for me and doesn’t charge me [...]
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A friend of mine shows how she cares for a paraplegic boy. She stands over him and lifts him under his armpits letting his legs hang to the ground. He cant walk of course. But as she holds him from above his crossed legs gradually uncross. In time they fall forwards one after the other [...]
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What is it that causes a group of people to give up their day for hard labour to move house and be happy to do it. At first I thought it was church as they were all church goers. But then I suspect it’s the fact that we all see ourselves as having the same [...]
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I was on holiday recently enjoying the recreation, when suddently I was hijacked by fear. Started thinking about the whole idea of provision in the long term.
10 years ago, I gave up a very well paid executive management role with Boots the Chemist, to be come a church minister. The skip to one third pay [...]
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