i've mentioned this site before but i'm still really enjoying the simple daily prayer thorts they put up there so if you looking for a place to help you meditate and reflect and prepare for prayer and for the day check out this daily prayer site commonprayer.net just some of the thorts on there today: When we love and learn to share : when we love, Christ is there. Elizabeth of the Trinity, a nineteenth-century [...]
very good blog by donald miller about pointing towards the light rather than being the light - check it out here
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
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/ - [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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...
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...