Hmmmmm...

"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. ”- Colossians 2:6-7

The hmmmm is because I am not impressed with the Internet security at work. They have decided to categorise ttai as a chat website and therefore ban it! They've also installed some other security thing that disables the sign in button from the blogspot homepage so i cant even update my own blog at work. However it may have been the kick up the bum I needed to sort myself out with internet at home - and here it is!

Thankfulness seems to be a bit topical at the moment. I took my Granny to church on sunday and Mark b talked on thankfulness and she really enjoyed it. She said it wsa an extremely relevant and helpful ermon and she wished her friend Janet had been there as well as my uncle Phil - there's an evangelist in her just waiting to get out!

Be thankful for eveything - to God ultimately but also to others. Thank your parents for their parenting (the good bits anyway), thank your teachers for teaching you, thank your employers for giving you access to the Internet albeit limited! Thank God for health, for breath, for life. Being thankful makes you generous.

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Mrs Robinson

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." - Psalm 119:105

Today is the day I graduate. My family are coming up to stay. I'll be going back to Cheltenham with them for the weekend too.

This verse is quite topical for a graduate I think. Everyone will be thinking what am i going to do now? Some will already know. Others like me, are still trying to figure it out. I find this verse helps. Currently my path is dark, I cannot see it - it's there but none of us can clearly see the future. However, there is hope. God and his word will light the way. God is not promising to show me my future, only to illuminate the imminent.

Interiority - Thesaurus bingo

God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.”- Job 37:5-6

I realise that over the last couple of years I've stopped trying to understand God. I no longer ask 'why?' very often. I probably won't understand the answer - I don't even think 'why?' is the right question. I've stopped asking why do good people suffer? why to bad people prosper? why are there devastating eathquakes, weather phenomenons that kill and destroy?

I see things and know they are God - beautiful sunsets, mountains, tropical islands, forgiveness. The things I see and don't know what God has to do with them, I look for where God is in them - the compassion, the grace, charity, amazing coincidences etc.

I don't know if I've stopped asking the questions because I'm afraid of getting answers I don't want to hear or if I'm scared of never getting the answers, either way my energy seems much better spent looking for the things that I can see.

Bye Bye Baby Bye Bye

“ [Instructions on Worship ] I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ”- 1 Timothy 2:1-2

1. God give wisdom and peace to the French government
2. God give our government your authority, power and wisdom so they make godly decisions
3. Give that homeless guy a hot meal and roof over his head tonight - and help me know what I can do when I see needs like that
4. May the girl I met on friday night get to her methadone appointment and may it be the start of her never having to use heroin again
5. Bless Simon and Liz in their marriage and home about a million times more than they are amazingly hospitable and great at throwing parties.

I hope thats enough for me to have a peaceful and quiet life, (or at least a good nights sleep - i had bad dreams last night) and bring on the godliness and holiness....

*sigh*

“ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ”- 1 Peter 2:9

Right now I couldn't feel less chosen, less royal (unless we're talking about the Windsors where it seems a given to be a complete f*** up! In which case I'm a right royal f*** up!), or less holy.

I don't feel out of the darkness, I'm well in the darkness. However, the Bible says I am all these good things whether I feel them or not. Regardless of my actions etc.

I do find it easy to beleive things I don't neccessarily feel if I'm feeling positive or indifferent. When I feel bad it's virtually impossibe to believe the good things until the negativity passes. Anyway I'm gonna give it a go.....