Wow, just caught this clip [or one like it] on the You of Tubes and it was such a difficult one to watch because again and again there are Too Close for Comfort moments being beamed out at you [my earphones are playing up at the moment so you may want to watch this with the sound down if in a public or work type space for obvious reasons] If you think you are brave [...]
Costa & Lorraine Mitchell. Married 3rd April 1971, both of us 21 years old at the time. We both think that we have had it very good in marriage. Obviously, this is a gift for which God is to be praised, and parents thanked, and we don’t take it lightly. It helps that God was strong in forming and informing our choices at the time we met. It helps hugely that we both came from parents [...]
A little eight-year-old girl was asked what she thought love was. She cocked her head and thought for a little bit. Then she replied, "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over to paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis. That's what love is." [pg 159, Getting Naked Later] And with that excerpt, i begin the book review of this most [...]
DAY 19ish As we start a new week, let us continue to really spend some time each day observing the Lent period leading up to Easter as we prepare for the reminder of what Jesus' death and resurrection means to our day to day lives. Task: Read through and meditate on the lyrics of this Tim Hughes worship song [featuring Brooke Fraser] and then give it a listen, remembering a time [it may be now] [...]
How do you judge good character? The idea or concept of ‘Character’ and ‘A person of good character’ seems, to me, to be a bit of subjective or elusive in terms of definition. And so, instead of trying to come up with any kind of definitive definition [is there such a thing as a non-definitive definition?] of what i mean when i talk about a person of character, i thought it might be more helpful to describe some aspects that i [...]
How do you judge good character? As i have been thinking about the idea of 'Character' and 'A person of good character' it seems to be a bit subjective or elusive in terms of definition. One of the dictionary definitions Uncle Google came up with was 'the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.' But the problem with that definition is that it uses the word moral [which in itself, these days, seems to be [...]
As we head into the weekend i have combined today and tomorrow into one post. Please use accordingly. They say 'Familiarity breeds contempt' although i would say sometimes that 'Familiarity breeds familiarity' which means that sometimes things that are completely profound, can lose some of their depth and meaning [for us] simply because we see them so many times that we get used to them and possibly skim over them and in one way take [...]
We met at UCT in 1975, followers of Christ and both students. Already - two keys to a long-lasting relationship - our Christian faith has held us in good times and difficulties; our keenness to learn and be curious about life, has kept our relationship interesting. After completing our degrees in Education and Librarianship , we decided to work for a year before making a firm choice to get married. So we had actually been [...]
DAY 16ish On day 1 of this Lent observance the task was to pray for your enemies and i imagine some people would have been all, 'But i don't have any enemies' and others might have been tempted to send out a generic, 'God please bless all my enemies' prayer to cover them all. Well, if you really don't have anyone who you don't like or who doesn't like you [whether you would specifically call them [...]
i was hoping to be able to get something out on this before Fred Phelps died, which apparently i failed to do. Fred Phelps, pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church where we use the term 'church' loosely as nothing of what i ever heard them connected to sounded anything like the idea of church that i have come to know and love. An obvious indicator is that the website address of this 'church' is the [...]