Disabling Aid – a Poem
Many of us use assorted aids to help us live our lives and belong in our communities.
Sometimes the aids themselves become a barrier to belonging
Many of us use assorted aids to help us live our lives and belong in our communities.
Sometimes the aids themselves become a barrier to belonging
Are the backs of our houses as tidy as the fronts? Are the parts of our character and of our ways which no one can see as right as those which all can see?
Christ comes and says: ‘See in it a chance to die. Die to your own will, to your own thoughts and opinions, to your I in all its little private preferences.’
There is no such thing for a child of God as a lost pain, not even the pain of sin.
…there is nothing, except things concerning our own comfort or desires, about which we can say ‘It doesn’t matter’
For years I lost the comfort of the promises specially spoken to saints, because I knew that I was miles from being one.
Abide by the lessons you have learnt: hold to your convictions…
The only thing that matters is that our service should not just be something done because it has to be done, but what the Spirit of God calls a Labour of love.
Is it cloudy weather for any of us? When it is, don’t let us miss our rainbows.
Whispers of His Power – JUNE 23 Gen. 48.14: And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. Ps. 78.72: So he… guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. ‘Guiding his hands wittingly.’ Do… Continue reading Whispers of His Power – JUNE 23