blue like don
very good blog by donald miller about pointing towards the light rather than being the light - check it out here
bearing one another's burdens as written by tbV
basically you should just subscribe to her blog cos anytime she says/writes something it's generally worth hearing... http://valanderson.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/on-bearing-one-anothers-burdens
New Audio Thort… Terry Pratchett speaks…
so the writing is going pretty well - not sure i'll be finishing this week but have definitely taken some huge strides forward [thankx big time to Garth Croftbro who reviewed the first part of it really hectically and gave me a lot of great stuff to work with] so thankx to everyone praying towards that... i did make time to record my second audio thort and you can find it here - http://brettfish.tumblr.com/ - [...]
brilliant article on love
this morning i gave a brief talk at somerset college on the difference between God's love and our (worldly) love and it went really well - but then the beautiful val sent me this link to this article on the relevant magazine site which i really think is so toyoda'ly written in terms of really capturing a lot of what it is about... check it out here... and please pass it on - so, so, [...]
one reason i love my wife, part vision
there are lots and lots of reasons but i've decided every now and then to celebrate by highlighting one of them... so today my beautiful wife [aka valerie slash tbV] decided she needed to go thru cupboards and stuff and get rid of crap. my response, "yes, let's get rid of crap, yay." her response was "hey, can we offer this stuff to Churien, the lady who comes and helps us clean our house once [...]
who does barack obama answer to?
i came across this article about barack obama's personal faith and the unsurprising statement that it is the call to look after 'the least of these' [matthew 25, sheep and goats parable] that keeps him focused... very cool... excerpt from article below - link to full article and clip here 'President Barack Obama gave an unusually personal speech about his religious faith on Thursday, saying that "it is the biblical injunction to serve the least [...]
storing her money in the stomachs of the needy…
i am really enjoying the site common prayer which gives a prayers (or prayers) and sometimes a brief uplifting story - i struggle to spend much time in prayer myself day to day in terms of just putting time aside to really dive into God, but i have found this site helpful just to help direct my prayer times or get me started or focus more... i really enjoyed today's story... Marcella of Rome (325 – 410) [...]
why Christianity is tougher than buddhism [part ii]
hee hee, i kept the part ii in cos it will drive some people made wondering whatever happened to part i but basically i stumbled upon this lady's blog on the part ii of her post and it really made a lot of sense and i liked it a lot, so go check it out... and if you want to do so then clicking here is one of the easiest ways to do so...
he's not klein, he's my bro-ther…
i stumbled upon the surprising blog of kleinfrans (he's not!) thankx to Tsholofelo this morning and what a great read it is - you should check it out. which will happen if you click over here...
story of hope – please take a moment and read, pass on…
wow, someone sent me the link to this article written by helen zille about two matrics - Asavela Rawe ('a 17-year old boy, who lives in a backyard shack with his single mother and three siblings, and achieved 7 distinctions in matric, including 97%for Higher Grade Mathematics and the top award in the Western Cape for Life Sciences') and his friend Monde Simbosini ('three distinctions and 98% for Higher Grade Mathematics') - from Masibambane high [...]